A powerful class of antibiotics called carbapenems can circumvent antibiotic resistance thanks to a particular chain of atoms in their structure. Now, a team of researchers from Penn State and Johns Hopkins University have imaged an enzyme involved in the creation of this chain to better understand how it forms—and perhaps replicate the process to improve future antibiotics. A paper describing the process appears Feb. 2 in the journal Nature.
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