{"id":200467,"date":"2024-11-30T05:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/modified-ribosomes-could-be-a-new-possible-mechanism-of-antibiotic-resistance"},"modified":"2024-11-30T05:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T11:24:31","slug":"modified-ribosomes-could-be-a-new-possible-mechanism-of-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/modified-ribosomes-could-be-a-new-possible-mechanism-of-antibiotic-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Modified ribosomes could be a new possible mechanism of antibiotic resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/modified-ribosomes-could-be-a-new-possible-mechanism-of-antibiotic-resistance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona reveals that bacteria can adapt their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, potentially playing a role in the development of antibiotic resistance. These small changes can modify the drug-binding sites on ribosomes, reducing the effectiveness of antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>The research focused on <em>Escherichia coli<\/em> (E. coli), a usually harmless bacterium that can lead to serious infections. The team exposed E. coli to two antibiotics, streptomycin and kasugamycin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/new-method-reveals-how-lasers-ablate-aluminum\/93436\/?utm_source=Blubs&utm_medium=BlubGrid&utm_campaign=Blubs&utm_id=Blubs\" title=\"Read Full Story\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Story<i class=\"\"><\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona reveals that bacteria can adapt their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, potentially playing a role in the development of antibiotic resistance. These small changes can modify the drug-binding sites on ribosomes, reducing the effectiveness of antibiotics. The research focused on Escherichia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200467","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}