Alan Brown1, Israel S Fernández1, Yuliya Gordiyenko1

  • 1MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.

Nature
|June 10, 2016
PubMed
まとめ

バクテリアの生存は ストレスを感じ取ることに依存しています 研究者らは構造的にRelA酵素が停滞したリボソームに結合して 厳格な反応を誘発し 重要な生存メカニズムとなり 新しい抗菌薬の標的となる ことを明らかにした.

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