MAC13243 the next big antibacterial compound?
Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by admin in Health
MAC13243 could be the next big thing in the treatment of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections. A new bacteria-killing agent, MAC13243, but it’s nothing to do with the current antibiotics or likes!
According to Canadian researchers they found a new chemical that could actually target drug-immune bacteria in an action different from that of an antibiotic. They christened it as MAC13243.
According to scientists of the McMaster University their discovery could well be a breakthrough leading to development of several new path-breaking interventions int he control of stubborn, incurable, and antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.
It should be noted here that there have been only 2 classes of new antibiotics developed in the last 4 decades.
The compound could lead to new options to treat antibiotic-immune bacterial infections, believes Eric Brown et al., of Michael DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research.
While the existent generation of antibiotics kills bacteria by preventing cell wall, DNA and/or protein synthesis, the new compound discovered by the McMaster University team of researchers, the MAC13243 blocks one step in development of bacterium’s cell surface; which was hitherto not focused as antibiotic or bacterial physiology.
You can read more about MAC13243 and the McMaster University teams findings in the Nature Chemical Biology journal.
