Scientists have isolated a possible new antibiotic from a strain of bacterium found in sandy soil from North Carolina.
Lewis. But"the most important thing about clovibactin, apart from its promise as a drug lead, is that it expands our understanding of antibiotics and what is possible."
Developing new antibiotics has proven challenging in part because 99 percent of bacteria species won't cooperatively grow in the lab., Lewis and team took an isolate of sandy soil and extended its incubation period to see if this would encourage any new types of bacteria to grow in the lab.
of peptidoglycan molecules, which bacteria use to build the cell membrane on which it sits. The bacteria then destroy their own membrane in a futile attempt to eliminate this wormy hitchhiker.
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