Sentences with phrase «produce erythromycin»
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Phyllis Martin of the US Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland, and students at nearby Bowie High School found that bacteria called Photorhabdus luminescens that glow a bluish - green also produce a range of antibiotics related to erythromycin.
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«We have not only created new analogs of erythromycin, but also developed a platform for using E. coli to produce the drug,» he said.
Over the past 11 years, Pfeifer's research has focused on manipulating E. coli so that the organism produces all of the materials necessary for creating erythromycin.
The antibiotic erythromycin is one example — it is a macrolide produced by soil - dwelling bacteria.