Vitamin Mimic (IMAGE)

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Vitamin Mimic

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This is an illustration of the PNNL team's technology where a vitamin mimic (small blue structure) binds to a protein (larger coiled structure) to gain entry into the bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus.

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Illustration courtesy of PNNL/Nathan Johnson

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