{"id":239990,"date":"2026-06-30T07:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/light-activated-compound-kills-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-by-turning-its-own-defense-enzyme-against-it"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:21:13","slug":"light-activated-compound-kills-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-by-turning-its-own-defense-enzyme-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/light-activated-compound-kills-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-by-turning-its-own-defense-enzyme-against-it","title":{"rendered":"Light-activated compound kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria by turning its own defense enzyme against it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-activated-compound-kills-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-by-turning-its-own-defense-enzyme-against-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antibiotic resistance is becoming an accelerating crisis because of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics over many years. The problem is exacerbated when antibiotics wipe out susceptible bacteria but leave resistant bacteria behind to multiply, further spreading resistance. There is an ongoing search for new treatments to fight resistant bacteria, and now researchers may have found a way to successfully treat at least one type of resistant bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>A new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2536405123\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, describes the design of a compound capable of destroying Gram-positive MRSA that produces \u03b2-lactamase when activated by light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotic resistance is becoming an accelerating crisis because of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics over many years. The problem is exacerbated when antibiotics wipe out susceptible bacteria but leave resistant bacteria behind to multiply, further spreading resistance. There is an ongoing search for new treatments to fight resistant bacteria, and now researchers may have [\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-239990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239990","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=239990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}