At the University of Illinois in Chicago, scientists revealed that antibiotics for the treatment of pneumonia and sinusitis help and when dealing with cancer, Interfax reports.
Researchers have established this fact when studying ribosomes producing protein in cells. Ribosomes in plants and animals can be modified to respond to antibiotics as well as they react to them in bacteria.
Since the expression of unwanted proteins is characterized by cancer, the antibiotic can also stop their production. To study such an opportunity, scientists constructed yeast ribosomes so that it is more like a bacterium. They changed one nucleotide of more than seven thousand in the structure of yeast, and the antibiotic has worked on their ribosome.
Thus, scientists found that antibiotics can be used to selectively suppress protein production in human cells and for the treatment of disease caused by them.