Unlocking the secrets of anthrax toxicity
Identification of the components of the anthrax toxin holds out hope for the rational drug design of a new generation of antibiotics.
Nov 1, 2001
In an elegant piece of deadly biology, the anthrax-causing bacterium,
Two papers to be published in 8 November
In the first paper Kenneth Bradley and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report the identification and isolation of the genetic code for anthrax toxin receptor (ATR) on the surface of eukaryotic cells that...