When It Comes to Antibiotics, Bacteria Show Some NO-how

• 来源期刊: 分子细胞生物学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2010,（5）
• 页码范围: 234-236
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.1093/jmcb/mjp044

摘要

Homologs to mammalian nitric oxide synthases are found in many mostly Gram-positive bacteria. In some genera such as bacilli, and staphylococci, these enzymes produce protects against oxidative damage, this effect has now been shown to provide an advantage against antibiotics that kill by increasing cellular levels of reactive oxygen species.