Theory Shows Mechanism Behind Delayed Development Of Antibiotic Resistance

Inhibiting the “drug efflux pumps” in bacteria, which function as their defence mechanisms against antibiotics, can mask the effect of mutations that have led to resistance in the form of low-affinity drug binding to target molecules in the cell. This is shown by researchers at Uppsala University in a new study that can provide clues to how the development of resistance to antibiotics in bacteria can be delayed.

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Filed under: Biology on May 9th, 2009