Why don’t antibiotic-making bacteria self-destruct? (IMAGE)

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Why don’t antibiotic-making bacteria self-destruct?

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This computer simulation shows the recently discovered lariocidin, a lasso-shaped compound with its “lasso loop” shown in yellow and “tail” shown in purple.

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Yury Polikanov and Dmitri Travin/University of Illinois, Chicago

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