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CCD-1 is an enzyme produced by the bacterium Clostridioides difficile that helps it resist antibiotics. Here, researchers crystallized bound pairs of CCD-1 molecules and molecules of the antibiotic cefotaxime. This enabled their structure to be studied using X-ray crystallography. Related to images 6765, 6766, and 6767.
Keith Hodgson, Stanford University.
Nichole K. Stewart, University of Notre Dame; Clyde A. Smith, Stanford University; Marta Toth, University of Notre Dame; Anastasiya Stasyuk, Stanford University; and Sergei B. Vakulenko, University of Notre Dame.
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