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From Bacterial Toxin to Therapeutic Agent: The Unexpected Fate of Mycolactone

“Recognizing a surprising fact is the first step towards discovery.” This famous quote from Louis Pasteur is particularly appropriate to describe what led us to study mycolactone, a lipid toxin produced by the human pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans. M. ulcerans is the causative agent of Buruli ulcer,...

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Autores principales: Ricci, Daniela, Demangel, Caroline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10303314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37368670
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins15060369