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Science 18 July 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5324, p. 319
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5324.319
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Hijacking a Cell's Chemical Paths to Make New Antibiotics

Robert F. Service

Many antibiotics have a complex molecular architecture that makes them extremely difficult to synthesize, making it hard to create new ones to combat resistant bacteria. On page 367, however, a group of biochemists describes a way to hijack the antibiotic-producing chemical pathways of bacteria, exploiting them to produce a wide variety of new compounds.

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