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- noun biochemistry A
single-stranded DNA transesterase produced by someprokaryotes andviruses
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Exactly how bisphosphonates destroy each bacterium is still unknown, Redinbo said, but the drugs are potent, wiping out any E. coli carrying relaxase. “That it killed bacteria was a surprise,” he said.
New Way to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found | Impact Lab 2007
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Led by graduate student Scott Lujan, the team suspected they could block relaxase by searching for vulnerability in a three-dimensional picture of the relaxase protein.
New Way to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found | Impact Lab 2007
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The drugs, called clodronate and etidronate, steal the DNA binding site, preventing relaxase from handling DNA.
New Way to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found | Impact Lab 2007
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Many highly-drug resistant bacteria rely on an enzyme, called DNA relaxase, to obtain and pass on their resistance genes.
New Way to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found | Impact Lab 2007
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The researchers analyzed relaxase because it plays a crucial role in conjugation.
New Way to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found | Impact Lab 2007
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DNA/relaxase complex to the nucleus of cultivated colonic epithelial cells will be visualised by confocal fluorescence imaging.
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One of the major contributors to this phenomenon is the VirD2 relaxase protein that recognises, binds and cleaves the border sequence of the
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The project aims at identifying the sequence (s) recognised by each relaxase using the
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