The key to a powerful antibiotic's formation now clear

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 in the journal Nature.

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