Publications by authors named "Chelsea G Walker"
Article Synopsis
- Antibiotics are crucial for treating bacterial infections, but their overuse has caused resistance, leading to a need for new antibacterial agents with different targets.
- Most current antibacterial drugs come from natural products found in microbes, but there's a lack of organization in this data, hindering research efforts.
- The study introduces a new resource to classify natural antibacterials and applies a method to uncover previously unknown antibacterial mechanisms, finding that telomycin from Streptomyces canus works through a unique target related to bacterial phospholipids.
