Research team at the Polar Research Institute discovers enzyme that neutralizes antibiotics.

Polar Research Institute
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, ‘ (Seoul = Yonhap News) By Shin Sunmi – Researchers at the Polar Research Institute announced on the 14th that they have discovered an enzyme that neutralizes antibiotics in microbes and published it in an international academic journal.’,
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, ” Lee Jun-hyuk, a senior researcher at the Polar Research Institute, and researchers at Ewha Womans University studied Stenotrophomonas sp., a bacterium, and discovered an enzyme called ‘CESS-1’ that inhibits antibiotic functions.”,
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, ‘ Stenotrophomonas is a widely distributed bacterium on Earth and was even found in Antarctica in 2012.’,
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, ‘ The researchers also identified that the CESS-1 enzyme can prevent the actions of five antibiotics, including penicillin, and its binding structure with antibiotics.’,
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, ‘ The researchers explained that by studying how bacteria block antibiotic functions, a solution to overcome antibiotic resistance can be found.’,
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