Chemicals made with natural ingredients: bacteria
Bacteria can use natural chemicals to create complex molecules, including antibiotics, with special enzymes.
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| Green chemistry technique to create synthetic drugs without the use of man-made chemicals. |
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"A team led by Qian Cheng and Bradley Moore of Scripps was able to synthesize an antibiotic natural product created by a Hawaiian sea sediment bacterium. They did so by combining a cocktail of enzymes, the protein catalysts inside cells, in a relatively simple mixing process inside a laboratory flask…The antibiotic synthesized in Moore's laboratory, called enterocin, was assembled in approximately two hours. Such a compound would normally take months if not a year to prepare chemically." (Scripps News Service 2007)
Bacteria
Organism/taxonomy data provided by:
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist
Application Ideas: Green chemistry technique to create synthetic drugs without the use of man-made chemicals.
Industrial Sector(s) interested in this strategy: Medicine
Moore Laboratory
Bradley Moore
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Calfornia San Diego
Bradley Moore
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Calfornia San Diego
Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego. 2007 September 4. Researchers develop simple method to create natural drug products.
http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=837.
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