302: Itching and Scratching and New Antibiotics

This Week in Microbiology

TWiM describes the mechanism for the S. aureus itch and scratch induced skin damage, and discovery of a novel class of antibiotics that targets the lipopolysaccharide transporter.

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Links:

• S. aureus drives itch and scratch behavior (Cell)

• Staph scratches its itch (Cell)

• A new class of antibiotics (Nature)

• A new type of antibiotic (Nature)

• Novel antibiotic targets LPS transporter (Nature)

• New antibiotic traps LPS (Nature)

• Macrocyclic peptide drugs (Science)

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