PRAGUE, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Czech scientists discovered the structure of an enzyme that can change bacteria DNA, the Czech news agency CTK said on Monday.
The discovery made by workers of the Academy and University Centre Nove Hrady will help other scientists change bacteria properties to prevent them from becoming resistant to antibiotics, CTK said.
"It is an important discovery for which teams the world over have been striving for several years already. We are among the first who have succeeded in crystallizing the protein and describing its mechanism," Ivana Kuta Semutanova, expert guarantor of the project, said.
"A part of the enzymes we study is a sort of engine ... it is capable of relocating DNA, to tow it as if on a rope across several thousand bases, which is a huge distance in our terms," Ruediger Ettrich, head of the protein structure and function center, said.
