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In modern medicine, antibiotics play a central role in the treatment of bacterial infections. In nature they are produced by bacteria or fungi, which they also use to defend themselves against other bacteria. Using a group of glycopeptide antibiotics
E-Mail Peptides " short strings of amino acids" play a vital role in health and industry with a huge range of medical uses including in antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer drugs. They are also used in the cosmetics industry and for enhancing athletic performance. Altering the structure of natural peptides to produce improved compounds is therefore of great interest to scientists and industry. But how the machineries that produce these peptides work still isn't clearly understood. Associate Professor Max Cryle from Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) has reve...