Heme in the laboratory (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Heme in the laboratory

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New research from Washington University in St. Louis in the journal eLife shows how animals and bacteria differ in the enzyme they use to attach heme to the cytochrome. Spotting variations in how this "cytochrome c synthase" works would help to find compounds that deactivate the enzyme in bacteria, but not in humans. The results of this study demonstrate that the bacterial cytochrome c synthase could be a promising target for new antibiotics.

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(Courtesy of Robert Kranz)

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