How Proteolysis Controls Growth in a Model Bacterium (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

How Proteolysis Controls Growth in a Model Bacterium

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UMass Amherst molecular biologists say newly idientified regulatory adaptors work in a step-wise, hierarchical way to degrade a handful of proteins. Then they recruit an additional adaptor to deliver a different set of proteins to bind even more adaptors. This may offer a new target for developing new antibiotics with a high potential to avoid triggering drug resistance.

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