Antibiotics (VIDEO)

Rockefeller University

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The Darst lab has shown how two classes of antibiotics (pictured in green) jam the enzyme responsible for the transcription of DNA to RNA. They do this by locking a key structural component in place.

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Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at The Rockefeller University

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