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Bacterial hole puncher could be new broad-spectrum antibiotic

Posted on October 27, 2015April 28, 2017 by zhan28@illinois.edu

Dr. Menghua Xiong‘s paper “Helical Antimicrobial Polypeptides with Radial Amphiphilicity” PNAS, 2015, is featured in UI news. 

A team of researchers developed a new broad-spectrum antibiotic that kills bacteria by punching holes in their membranes. Front row, from left: materials science and engineering professor Jianjun and postdoctoral researcher Yan Bao. Back row, from left: postdoctoral researcher Menghau Xiong, graduate students Ziyuan Song and Rachael Mansbach, materials science and engineering professor Andrew Ferguson, and biochemistry professor Lin-Feng Cheng.

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