{"id":102320,"date":"2020-02-13T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/antibiotics-discovered-that-kill-bacteria-in-a-new-way"},"modified":"2020-02-13T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:43:58","slug":"antibiotics-discovered-that-kill-bacteria-in-a-new-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/antibiotics-discovered-that-kill-bacteria-in-a-new-way","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotics discovered that kill bacteria in a new way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antibiotics-discovered-that-kill-bacteria-in-a-new-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new group of antibiotics with a unique approach to attacking bacteria has been discovered, making it a promising clinical candidate in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-found corbomycin and the lesser-known complestatin have a never-before-seen way to kill <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacteria<\/a>, which is achieved by blocking the function of the bacterial cell wall. The discovery comes from a family of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antibiotics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antibiotics<\/a> called glycopeptides that are produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/soil+bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soil bacteria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also demonstrated in mice that these new antibiotics can block infections caused by the drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus which is a group of bacteria that can cause many serious infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new group of antibiotics with a unique approach to attacking bacteria has been discovered, making it a promising clinical candidate in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. The newly-found corbomycin and the lesser-known complestatin have a never-before-seen way to kill bacteria, which is achieved by blocking the function of the bacterial cell wall. The discovery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}