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Blocking bacterial defences

Electrochemical sensing of the function of cell-membrane proteins has led to the identification of inhibitors that could provide a new approach to the identification of antimicrobial drugs.

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Figure 1: Blocking the bacterial nanopore Wza.

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O'Neill, E., Field, R. Blocking bacterial defences. Nature Chem 5, 642–643 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1718

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