Antibiotics are still the most important weapon for combatting bacterial infections. But medical science is running out of ”ammunition” because of more and more frequently occurring resistances. Research teams have now elucidated the structure of the proteolytic complex ClpX-ClpP. This is a key to development of innovative antibiotics which target the degradation process of defective proteins in bacteria.
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Source: ScienceDaily