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The Bacterial Cell Wall The tough, inflexible envelope that surrounds a bacterium is a single giant molecule made up of amino acid and sugar units. Its formation is blocked by drugs such as penicillin ...

To combat bacteria’s tendency to evolve new methods of bypassing a drug’s mechanism of action, Rockefeller University researchers turned to the viral enzyme lysin that viruses use to break through the ...

In one study I worked on, we showed that part of a bacterial cell wall, when injected into patients, could safely help control melanoma – the most deadly form of skin cancer. Bacterial-based cancer ...

The bactericidal action of vancomycin results primarily from inhibition of cell-wall biosynthesis. In addition, vancomycin alters bacterial-cell-membrane permeability and RNA synthesis.