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- noun medicine Any of several naturally-occurring
antibiotics obtained frommyxobacteria
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Examples
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In research published online Oct. 22 in Nature, the UAB team pinpointed the place on bacteria where an antibiotic called myxopyronin launches its attack, and why that attack is successful.
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Among them, researchers say, is a compound called myxopyronin that shows great promise.
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Nature, the UAB team pinpointed the place on bacteria where an antibiotic called myxopyronin launches its attack, and why that attack is successful.
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In the new study, the researchers examined three antibiotic compounds, called myxopyronin, corallopyronin, and ripostatin, that block the action of RNA polymerase specifically in bacteria.
Biosingularity 2008
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Specifically, Professor Dimitry Vassylyev and colleagues found the place on bacteria where an antibiotic called myxopyronin launches its attack, and why that attack is successful.
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Dmitry Vassylyev, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics, and colleagues found that myxopyronin binds to and inhibits a crucial bacterial enzyme, RNA polymerase.
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"Prior to this work, we knew myxopyronin killed bacteria, but we did not know the precise way it accomplished this task," Vassylyev said.
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They determined myxopyronin binds to and inhibits a crucial bacterial enzyme, RNA polymerase, that's used by all living organisms to transfer genetic instructions stored in DNA to messenger RNA.
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Two of the antibiotic compounds, myxopyronin and corallopyronin, have "good features" against a broad range of infectious diseases including TB, according to the researchers.
Biosingularity 2008
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The new antibiotic compounds under study are myxopyronin, corallopyronin, and ripostatin.
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