Discovering Novel Antibiotics

Three methods identify and activate silent bacterial gene clusters to uncover new drugs

By Sandeep Ravindran | February 1, 2017

MIXING IT UP: The bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor produces a variety of novel compounds when grown in combination with other bacterial species, and these interspecies interactions result in differences in colony development and pigment production when viewed under a microscope.mBio, doi:10.1128/mBio.00459-13, 2013