Novel Antibiotics Could Arise from Adhesion Protein Structure Analysis

Scientists at Harvard Medical School, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Georgia have described how the protein that allows strep and staph bacteria to stick to human cells is prepared and packaged. Their study (“ Unraveling the sequence of cytosolic reactions in the export of GspB adhesion from Streptococcus gordonii ”), which could facilitate the development of new antibiotics, appears in the  Journal of Biological Chemistry .“Many pa