Anthracimycin: New Antibiotic Kills Anthrax, MRSA

Sci-News.com ^ | Jul 19, 2013 | NA

[neverdem]

That's another way to depict the structure of the molecule.

Molecular Formula: C₂₅H₃₂O₄

Carbon atoms are at each angle except for that lone oxygen that's part of the extended ring structure. There are three oxygen atoms off of the extended ring structure.

Hydrogen atoms are understood. Carbon atoms are bound to four other atoms except when they have covalent double or triple bonds. Covalent bonds mean atoms share two or more pairs of electrons.

Anthracimycin's carbon atoms only have single or double covalent bonds. Single covalent bonds are represented by single lines; double bonds are represented by two lines, etc.

[Owl558]

Wow, what an exciting discovery. Our lives just changed and most of us remain blissfully unaware.

[Spok]

May go down in history as the last medical innovation before ObamaCare completely strangled all incentives for research.

[neverdem]

Covalent bonds mean atoms share two or more pairs of electrons.

Covalent bonds mean at least two atoms share one or more pairs of electrons.

[neverdem]

Wow, what an exciting discovery.

I just made a new keyword, i.e. newantibiotic. What's really interesting here is that this antibiotic came from bacteria, IMHO. Our usual experience is to discover these drugs in fungi. Penicillin was discovered accidentally in an old mold culture by Alexander Fleming.

[ClearCase_guy]

“At first, we thought it was safe. A new antibiotic! It was a breakthrough! It was only later that we learned what the side effect was. Anyway, Son, that’s how zombies were created ...”

[Jimmy4Toes]

I would be Jimmy10Toes again if it came out three years ago.

[Owl558]

“What’s really interesting here is that this antibiotic came from bacteria...”

It’s a seminal breakthrough that gives us a whole new way of looking at antibiotic chemistry. Real Nobel Prize stuff, if that still means anything. We get to go back and search other coastal areas for variations of this molecule.

“Penicillin was discovered accidentally in an old mold culture by Alexander Fleming.”

If I remember the story, he became interested in a blue mold growing on some orange peels left out near a window.

(and if that isn’t the story, it should be :)

[Scrambler Bob]

In sediment off shore from Santa Barbara.

Could this be from OIL seepage?

[BenLurkin]

Quick. Put it in hand soap.

[Uri’el-2012]

Perhaps it could be used prophylactically,
Both MSSA and MRSA are hospital acquired

[LongWayHome]

Thanks for posting this. I have not seen it anywhere else. A family member almost died from a MRSA infection last year.

[neverdem]

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[neverdem]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming#Accidental_discovery

[savedbygrace]

Like.

[neverdem]

Perhaps it could be used prophylactically,

No way after toxicity testing. This needs to be used, if possible, very judiciously, or else we'll promote antibacterial resistance to it.

Both MSSA and MRSA are hospital acquired

Both are also community acquired already.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

MRSA. Is killed by lavender oil.

[OldMissileer]

Both MSSA and MRSA are hospital acquired

Back in August 2009 I had not been near a hospital in about a decade. I caught a case of MRSA in my armpit and ended up at Dewitt Army Hospital in serious condition for four days.

The doctors told me MRSA is now everywhere and they think close to 50% of the population have it on their bodies. It just takes the right conditions, including the host being ill and their defenses being down for the infection to attack.

[MissMagnolia]

A relative of mine was on a hike ...slipped on some rocks and scraped his shin up pretty good. He almost lost that leg to MRSA ... they cleaned it out to the bone ... if it had been in the bone, bye-bye leg. It took months to heal and required a wound specialist’s care.