PROTEINS THAT TAME BACTERIA.

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL proteins; LITHGOW, Trevor; BUCHANAN, Susan; MONASH University. School of Biomedical Sciences; NATIONAL Institutes of Health (U.S.)

The article discusses the efforts of researchers to discover ways to treat bacteria in humans in such a way that the bacteria survives but is harmless. Topics discussed include the discovery of BamA and TamA bacterial proteins, the work of Professor Trevor Lithgow of the Monash University School of Biomedical Sciences in Melbourne, Victoria, and the work of Susan Buchanan of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.