{"id":1695,"date":"2017-07-27T04:08:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2017-07-17T04:26:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T12:26:43","slug":"decoding-the-e-coli-defenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Decoding the E. coli Defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E. coli or\u00c2\u00a0Escherichia coli is a Gram-negative gammaproteobacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms. It is responsible for many stomach infections and can be quite harmful to the gut bacteria already present. The bacteria is also increasingly drug resistant, which makes it a worthy adversary to doctor&#8217;s prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers at the\u00c2\u00a0Cornell University have come up with a study that has revealed the ability of the E. coli bacteria to defend itself against antibiotics and other poisons. Essentially the space between the\u00c2\u00a0inner and outer membranes of the bacteria&#8217;s cells have defensive proteins which not only detect a threat to the cell, but also line up\u00c2\u00a0like barrel staves to form a tunnel between pumps in the cell&#8217;s inner and outer membranes to eject the intruders.<\/p>\n<p>While the study in of itself is fascinating, what&#8217;s more important is that the researchers can now customize medication to hinder this defense mechanism of the bacteria. That is now being considered as the subject of a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?Science-Fair-Projects---Complete-Guide-to-a-Winning-Science-Project-Step-3---Project-Research&amp;id=1784161\">scientific study<\/a>. The results of which would be extremely beneficial to those who may suffer from E. coli infections in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E. coli or\u00c2\u00a0Escherichia coli is a Gram-negative gammaproteobacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms. It is responsible for many stomach infections and can be quite harmful to the gut bacteria already present. The bacteria is also increasingly drug resistant, which makes it a worthy adversary to doctor&#8217;s prescriptions. Now researchers at the\u00c2\u00a0Cornell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}