The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, together with other microorganisms, forms resistant biofilms that cause chronic infections. Eduard Torrents and his team have been studying this bacterium since 1999, as its metabolic versatility gives it the ability to encode many genes related to DNA synthesis.
Specifically, it is one of the few organisms that can encode three types of the enzyme ribonucleotide reductase, key to the formation of the building blocks that make up DNA. This allows it to grow under all kinds of environmental conditions and infect any living being.
Eduard Torrents and Maria del Mar Cendra
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