Flippable DNA Switches Help Bacteria Resist Antibiotics and Are More Common Than Thought
January 10, 2019
January 10, 2019
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 10 -- The Broad Institute issued the following news release:
Invertons -- bits of regulatory DNA that can flip between "on" and "off" positions -- let bacteria adapt to their surroundings and are widespread.
Bacteria have a number of well-known tricks available to them to adapt to changing environments, such as mutation and sharing snippets of DNA with each other. Less studied is a mechanism that allows bacteria to hedg . . .
Invertons -- bits of regulatory DNA that can flip between "on" and "off" positions -- let bacteria adapt to their surroundings and are widespread.
Bacteria have a number of well-known tricks available to them to adapt to changing environments, such as mutation and sharing snippets of DNA with each other. Less studied is a mechanism that allows bacteria to hedg . . .