{"id":217534,"date":"2025-07-10T01:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-bacteria-grow-evolutionary-differences-point-to-new-ways-to-combat-infection"},"modified":"2025-07-10T01:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:28:54","slug":"how-bacteria-grow-evolutionary-differences-point-to-new-ways-to-combat-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-bacteria-grow-evolutionary-differences-point-to-new-ways-to-combat-infection","title":{"rendered":"How bacteria grow: Evolutionary differences point to new ways to combat infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-bacteria-grow-evolutionary-differences-point-to-new-ways-to-combat-infection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With colleagues from his department as well as the Institut national de la recherche scientifique and Indiana University, Brun\u2019s research team used advanced microscopy techniques and fluorescent probes to track <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bacterial+growth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacterial growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The results reveal an unexpected diversity in wall elongation patterns, centered on peptidoglycan synthesis\u2014an important target of several classes of antibiotics, including penicillin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was thought to be a relatively uniform process actually appears to be much more variable, even between very closely related species,\u201d said Brun, the study\u2019s senior author. \u201cThis variability may represent new points of fragility that could be exploited to develop new antibiotics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With colleagues from his department as well as the Institut national de la recherche scientifique and Indiana University, Brun\u2019s research team used advanced microscopy techniques and fluorescent probes to track bacterial growth. The results reveal an unexpected diversity in wall elongation patterns, centered on peptidoglycan synthesis\u2014an important target of several classes of antibiotics, including penicillin. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217534","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}