Blog Post Image: Clever chemistry and a new class of antibiotics

A more rigid key in the lock. Researchers at Brown and MIT re-engineered some acyldepsipeptides — ADEPs — to make them more rigid and better able to disrupt the biochemistry of bacteria. The changes vastly increased potency of ADEPs. Image credit: Sello lab/Brown University

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