Illustration of Clovibactin's working mechanism (IMAGE)

Utrecht University

Illustration of Clovibactin's working mechanism

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The newly discovered antibiotic Clovibactin uses an unsual cage-like binding motif to tightly wrap around special lipids in bacterial cell membranes.

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Markus Weingarth

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