Yury Polikanov and collaborators published in Nature Chemical Biology
BIOS professor Yury Polikanov and his lab researcher Elena V. Aleksandrova collaborated with Center for Biomolecular Sciences researchers to test a new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets which would make it 100 million times more difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance. In the new study published in Nature Chemical Biology, their research examined how a class of synthetic drugs called macrolones disrupt bacterial cell function to fight infectious diseases.
Their work was also featured this July in UIC Today.
Read the study, Dual-action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossible.
Modified on August 01, 2024