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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
, Microbiology
by ruth on February 27, 2008

The researchers isolated the antibiotic, dubbed it rhodostreptomycin and started testing it to see what else it would kill. It proved effective against many other strains of bacteria, most notably Helicobacter pylori. Rhodostreptomycin is a promising candidate to treat H. pylori because it can survive in very acidic environments such as the stomach.
The antibiotic turned out to be a type of molecule called an aminoglycoside, composed of peculiar sugars, one of which has a ring structure that has not been seen before. The ring structure could offer chemists a new target for modification, allowing
More details from the MIT News.
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