Research performed at Diamond Light Source has helped to understand how a bacterium responsible for many hospital-acquired infections is able to resist one of the most widely used antiseptic agents. By using ultraviolet light to perform circular dichroism measurements of the proteins within the cells, the scientists were able to characterise a previously unknown method by which the antiseptic could be actively transported out of the cell.
Hassan, K. A., Jackson, S. M., Penesyan, Patching, S. G., Tetu, S. G., Eijkelkamp, B. A., Brown, M. H., Henderson, P. J. F., Paulsen, I. T. Transcriptomic and biochemical analyses identify a family of chlorhexidine efflux proteins. PNAS 110. Issue 50, 20254–20259 (2013), doi:10.1073/pnas.1317052110
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