UIC scientists explore powerful new antibiotic
UIC scientists, including our very own Yury Polikanov of Biological Sciences, explore a dual-action antibiotic that could combat bacterial resistance🔬.
"Polikanov’s group, which specializes in structural biology, studied how these drugs interact with the ribosome and found that they bind more tightly than traditional macrolides. The macrolones were even capable of binding and blocking ribosomes from macrolide-resistant bacterial strains and failed to trigger the activation of resistance genes."
For more information on this exciting development, please visit go.uic.edu/yury-polikanov-antibiotic-uic-today.