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The cocktail of enzymes contains highly specific biochemical catalysts that target and degrade the mycobacteria cell envelope that is essential for mycobacterial viability.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

A new study published in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, shows that an enzymatic cocktail can kill a variety of mycobacterial species of bacteria, including those that cause tuberculosis.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

Like malaria, there is a genetic predisposition to this mycobacterial infection, and 95% of adults are unable to get the disease⁠, even if exposed to it.

From Forbes • Mar. 6, 2015

Genetic and lipid profiling studies identified the likely molecular target of indolcarboxamides as MmpL3, a transporter of trehalose monomycolate that is essential for mycobacterial cell wall biosynthesis.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 4, 2013

Foremost among them is phase 2a testing, which checks whether a drug decreases the mycobacterial load in patients' sputum within two weeks of starting treatment.

From Nature • Oct. 9, 2013