Infectious diseases: Soil-sifting snags new antibiotic

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 16, 530 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.141 Author: Katie Kingwell Multidrug-resistant bacteria pose a considerable public health threat, and new treatment options are urgently needed. Now, Maffioli et al. have identified a nucleoside-analogue inhibitor that targets bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) and shows antibacterial activity against drug-resistant pathogens.The authors began by screening a library
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