Antibiotic resistance could kill nearly 40 million people by 2050, or nearly 2 million direct victims per year worldwide, according to a study published in the journal The LancetSo researchers are getting busy, trying to find solutions to avoid this grim scenario, while there is still time.
Led by Nalini Rama Rao, a research director at INRAE, scientists have identified a protein produced by all bacteria to resist the immune system of the infected host. The Mfd protein also increases the bacteria's ability to develop resistance. In a library of 5 million molecules, they found the molecule NM102, capable of binding to the Mfd protein and inhibiting its action.
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