Antibiotic

Latest Innovations

Biosynthesis of Lantibiotics: In vitro semi-synthetic production methods for generation of industrial antibiotic, Lacticin 481

 

This invention allows the engineering of semi-synthetic lantibiotics to a much larger extent than using typically practiced in vivo methods. The method is the...

New Drugs for Malarial and Bacterial Infections

 

New anti-infectives are required now more than ever as resistance to existing drugs increases in prevalence. Enzymes unique to bacteria or parasites are potential...

Fusidic Acid Derivatives with New Antibacterial Activity

Dr. Paul Hergenrother fhas developed a new series of broad spectrum fusidic acid derivatives. Designed using two distinct methodologies, these fusidic acid derivatives...

Antibodies to target chicken herpes virus receptor protein

 

Professors Keith Jarosinski and Ying Fang at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have generated a panel of antibodies that target and bind an uncharacterized...