Pennsylvania State University: Flipping and Reversing Mini-Proteins Could Improve Disease Treatment

11 February 2026

Pennsylvania State University press release

Antibiotic treatments are losing effectiveness against a range of common bacterial pathogens. For the TB microbe, a team of researchers found that a potential solution may be chemically changing the structure of a naturally occurring peptide — a building block of proteins — to make it a more stable and effective antimicrobial agent, while reducing potential toxicity to human cells.

The synthetically structured peptides could potentially help the cocktail of drugs used to treat TB be more effective, according to the researchers.

Read the full press release here.

Source: Pennsylvania State University