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Histone H1 kills MRSA
1 Nov 2024
Abstract excerpt
The antimicrobial activity of histones was discovered in the 1940s, but their mechanism of action is not fully known. Here we show that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is susceptible to histone H1 (H1), even in the presence of divalent cations and serum. Through selective evolution and a genome-wide screen of a transposon library, as well as physiological and pharmacological experiments, we...
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