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- noun medicine An
antibiotic obtained from Staphylococcus simulans
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The researchers chose the enzyme lysostaphin, which is known to kill the Staphylococcus bacteria.
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First they had to figure out how to successfully attach the lysostaphin to the nanotube.
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The answer was yes and the team quickly focused on lysostaphin, an enzyme secreted by non-pathogenic Staph strains, harmless to humans and other organisms, capable of killing
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The answer was yes and the team quickly focused on lysostaphin, an enzyme secreted by non-pathogenic Staph strains, harmless to humans and other organisms, capable of killing Staphylococcus aureus, including MRSA, and commercially available.
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"The more the lysostaphin is able to move around, the more it is able to function."
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The nanotube-lysostaphin coating does neither, said Dordick.
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If you put a tiny amount of lysostaphin in a solution with
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The new coating marries carbon nanotubes with lysostaphin, a naturally occurring enzyme used by non-pathogenic strains of Staph bacteria to defend against Staphylococcus aureus, including
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Interestingly, when S. aureus was treated with lysostaphin and lysozyme to remove the cell wall, the resulting protoplasts exhibited a remarkably different SERS spectrum (blue trace,
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Interestingly, when S. aureus was treated with lysostaphin and lysozyme to remove the cell wall, the resulting protoplasts exhibited a remarkably different SERS spectrum (blue trace,
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ting-Ting Liu et al. 2009
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