Post by McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences

Streptomyces are, in effect, natural pharmaceutical factories, responsible for producing many of the anticancer compounds, immunosuppressants and antibiotics used in clinics worldwide. But a new study published in the journal Nature Magazine - Microbiology, suggests that their chemical repertoire is even more complex than previously understood.     Researchers at McMaster University, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, with collaborators from Stockholm University in Sweden and Yale University, have identified and characterized a new class of Streptomyces-produced toxins that are very distantly related to the deadly toxin that causes diphtheria, a serious and contagious infection, in humans.     Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eZS4N2G3