Researchers discovered a stress signaling system that enables bacteria to adapt and protect themselves against the immune system and certain antibiotics. The discovery of RlmN as a stress sensor reveals a new mechanism of antimicrobial resistance that can be targeted for drug development.
Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, in collaboration with Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have discovered a new stress signaling system that enables bacteria cells to adapt and protect themselves against the immune system and certain antibiotics.
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