ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — A paper published by a University of North Carolina Asheville biology professor and a team of 12 students has identified a promising development for combating drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or staph bacteria.
The paper was led by Associate Professor of Biology Melinda R. Grosser, Ph.D., and an undergraduate student named Jenna Vidaud, and co-written by a team of 11 other UNC Asheville undergraduate students. Their research was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Bacteriology by the American Society for Microbiology.
The paper revealed that disabling an enzyme called YqeK “can strip one of the world’s most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria of much of its power to harm — without a single antibiotic,” UNC Asheville said in a press release…