How Staphylococcus aureus gets the metals that are part of its toxicity

[huiray]

Article in C&EN.

 

http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i22/Pathogen-uses-promiscuous-molecule-scavenge.html 

 

ETA: S. aureus is one of the organisms commonly responsible for food poisoning. I thought this would be of interest to those interested in the newest details of how it empowers itself in its toxicity (including grabbing metals from you, whether in your gut or in your nose or on animals that you will be eating). The commentary about possible new treatments attacking the proteins needed to generate the compound used for the metal-scavenging by S. aureus, where the beneficient bacteria in our gut would not be affected (by and large), might also be interesting to some.

Edited June 2, 2016 by huiray (log)

[AlaMoi]

oh great, or mebbe just "nuts"

 

now we'll all be subject to a new raft of "it's gonna kill you" spam based on molecules from the cook migrating into pan we cook with . . .

 

Teflon never had it so good . . .

[Kouign Aman]

That's cool, huiray!