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It shouldn't be too surprising that these are peptides. It should be easier for a bacterium to evolve a new peptide than would be to evolve a new non-peptide a
by pfdietz 2y ago
It shouldn't be too surprising that these are peptides. It should be easier for a bacterium to evolve a new peptide than would be to evolve a new non-peptide antibiotic, since the latter requires evolving a new sequence of enzymes, each of which is a peptide.