![]() ![]() “Bacterial spores are inert, dormant, which is why antibiotics don’t work on them. The researchers say the review, published in Trends in Microbiology, is timely because antimicrobial resistance is a global issue and a better understanding of the spore formation process could lead to drugs designed to target infections by spore-forming bacteria that are really difficult to treat. Morlot.īacteria are very versatile at recycling components to make new structures and there’s speculation that this new type of specialised secretion system is cobbled together from ‘different parts’ of other specialised secretion systems, “it is comparable to building a new car but using parts from different car models” says Dr Rodrigues a microbiologist at UTS ithree institute. ![]() “Specialised secretion systems assemble energy-driven “channels” that transport molecules across the bacterial cell layers and are well known for their important roles in bacterial movement, infection of host cells and killing of bacterial competitors and now there is evidence that similar machines are used during spore formation” says Dr. Media Release From: University of Technology Sydney (UTS)īased on their own investigation and studies reported by others, Dr Christopher Rodrigues from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and Dr Cécile Morlot from the Institut de Biologie Structurale in France, propose possible models for how this nanomachine, a new type of specialised secretion system called the SpoIIIA-SpoIIQ complex, might look like and work during the spore formation process. ![]()
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