
Soil-bacteria antibiotic cluster offers a strategy, not a treatment
The promise in a newly reported antibiotic-gene megacluster is its architecture, not a medicine ready for a ward. Nature News reported that researchers identified a cluster in Streptomyces soil bacteria that produces several compounds with activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria. The associated Nature paper by Gordzevich and colleagues describes a biological system that attacks more than one point in an essential metabolic pathway.








