miércoles, 7 de agosto de 2019

RNA Polymerase: A Target for New Antibiotic Drugs? – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

RNA Polymerase: A Target for New Antibiotic Drugs? – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.​

RNAP illustrated as a crab claw, clamping on a DNA double helix.

RNA Polymerase: A Target for New Antibiotic Drugs?

RNA Polymerase (RNAP) is the enzyme that reads the code in our DNA. All living beings rely on RNAP. Some disease-causing microbes have special forms of RNAP that scientists believe can be specifically targeted as a new way to treat infections.
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