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Article: PROTEIN STRUCTURE MAY LEAD TO TREATMENT FOR INFECTION TARGETING CYSTIC FIBROSIS PATIENTS

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June 9, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following press release:

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have determined the structure of a key protein believed to play a role in a deadly infection that afflicts the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. This finding, published in today's issue of Science, may lead to a new drug to treat the bacterial infection.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a pathogen that infects more than 80 percent of cystic fibrosis patients, is a leading cause of these patients' deaths. P. aeruginosa is difficult to treat because it is resistant to many drugs.

While working through a number of pathogenic ...

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