Sentences with phrase «different antibiotic compounds»
Three genera of these solitary wasps cultivate defensive Streptomyces symbionts that protect the wasps» offspring from pathogenic fungi by producing a mixture of up to 45 different antibiotic compounds.
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Fussenegger created his biological calculator by engineering an embryonic kidney cell to respond to two different chemicals: erythromycin (an antibiotic) and phloretin (a compound found in apple trees).
In the heyday of antibiotic development in the mid-20th century many different chemical compounds with antibacterial properties were examined, but only a small proportion were selected for development into drugs.
Most of the antibiotics that we know are compounds that are produced by different kinds of soil bacteria.