UTEP Fights Superbugs with $1.2 Million NIH Grant to Develop a New Way to Produce Antibiotics (IMAGE)

University of Texas at El Paso

UTEP Fights Superbugs with $1.2 Million NIH Grant to Develop a New Way to Produce Antibiotics

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Kim and his research team of undergraduate and graduate students will focus their efforts on studying how bacteria produce a natural product antibiotic called lasalocid. This drug requires nine enzymes - proteins that perform chemical transformations - to work together for bacteria to synthesize the antibiotic.

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J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Communications

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