by Illima Loomis, Harvard Medical School Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A little-known bacterium—a distant cousin of the microbes that cause tuberculosis and leprosy—is emerging as a public health threat capable of causing severe lung infections among vulnerable populations, those with compromised immunity or reduced lung function. Previous research had found that various strains of the bacterium Mycobacterium abscessus...
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Starving the bacterium that causes pneumonia
by Florienne Loder, University of Melbourne Structure of the S. pneumoniae manganese transporter including the transmembrane regions (blue), the energy driving domains (pink), and the membrane lipids as pale grey with pale orange heads. The yellow sections represent the position of the manganese-specific gating residues. Credit: Hugo MacDermott-Opeskin, Megan O’Mara, and Christopher McDevitt The invitations, decorations,...