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Bacteria reinvent their weapons through selection, chance and gene swapping

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  • Phys.org · October 23, 2026 20:00
    Many of the most potent antibiotics originate from bacteria. A large proportion belong to a class of compounds known as nonribosomal peptides (NRP). They are produced by large bacterial enzyme machineries—the nonribosomal peptide synthetases, or NRPS for short. These function like molecular…