302: Itching and Scratching and New Antibiotics
This Week in Microbiology · Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson
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Show Notes
TWiM describes the mechanism for the S. aureus itch and scratch induced skin damage, and discovery of a novel class of antibiotics that targets the lipopolysaccharide transporter.
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Links:
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S. aureus drives itch and scratch behavior (Cell)
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Staph scratches its itch (Cell)
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A new class of antibiotics (Nature)
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A new type of antibiotic (Nature)
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Novel antibiotic targets LPS transporter (Nature)
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New antibiotic traps LPS (Nature)
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Macrocyclic peptide drugs (Science)
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