Caught In The Act (IMAGE)
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The antibiotic, globomycin, shuts down lipoprotein maturation by blocking the active site of the processing enzyme, LspA. Researchers hope their blueprint of LspA-globomycin will inform drug design so that analogues may be developed to fight a plethora of common but devastating infections.
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Martin Caffrey, Trinity College Dublin.
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