Recently deceased UC Berkeley professor Nicholas Cozzarelli's research group "discovered that a very important class of antibiotics, the quinolines, act by a jujitsu-like mechanism -- turning the normal function of one of the cell's most essential proteins -- a topoisomerase -- against the cell".
"These antibiotics, and in the same way, some of the most important anti-cancer drugs, turn topoisomerases into cell-suicide machines that break a cell's DNA into fragments."
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I guess you could call this Internal Martial Arts? :-)
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