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A Deadly Bacterium's Weapon of Choice (1 of 2)

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A Deadly Bacterium's Weapon of Choice (1 of 2)

image: Foreground: Molecular structure of a Burkholderia Lethal factor 1, a meliodosis toxin that inhibits protein synthesis (the toxin is shown as a cartoon, with the active residues as spherical atoms; figure produced using PyMol). Background image: Aftermath of the ambush of a convoy, Vietnam 1965. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 11, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. A. Cruz of University of Sheffield in Sheffield, UK, and colleagues, was titled, "A Burkholderia pseudomallei Toxin Inhibits Helicase Activity of Translation Factor eIF4A." view more 

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