{"id":722402,"date":"2022-04-29T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=722402"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:00:01","slug":"discovery-of-aberrant-protein-that-kills-bacterial-cells-could-help-unravel-mechanism-of-certain-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=722402","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of aberrant protein that kills bacterial cells could help unravel mechanism of certain antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have discovered an aberrant protein that&#8217;s deadly to bacteria. In a paper just published in the journal PLOS ONE, the scientists describe how this erroneously built protein mimics the action of aminoglycosides, a class of antibiotics. The newly discovered protein could serve as a model to help scientists unravel details of those drugs&#8217; lethal effects on bacteria\u2014and potentially point the way to future antibiotics.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-04-discovery-aberrant-protein-bacterial-cells.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Discovery of aberrant protein that kills bacterial cells could help unravel mechanism of certain antibiotics<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have discovered an aberrant protein that&#8217;s deadly to bacteria. In a paper just published in the journal&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}