Sentences with phrase «structure of penicillin»

So Smith sent crystals of the vitamin to University of Oxford chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a pioneering crystallographer who had solved the structure of penicillin.

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Some of the molecular structures, in penicillin and vitamin B - 12 for example, were quite surprising.

Her lab later came up with structures for penicillin, which influenced the development of antibiotics, and for vitamin B - 12, which her group determined with the aid of one of the first electronic computers.

To help on this front, in a new paper published in the journal Structure, researchers from McGill University present in atomic detail how specific bacterial enzymes, known as kinases, confer resistance to macrolide antibiotics, a widely used class of antibiotics and an alternative medication for patients with penicillin allergies.

With just a bachelor's degree, she began working in the lab of protein crystallography pioneer and Nobel Laureate Dorothy Hodgkin, who solved structures for penicillin, Vitamin B12 and insulin.

After scientists figured out in 1943 that penicillin contains a sulfur atom, they had two main hypotheses of its structure.