A member of the CRC program, St Vincent’s Institute and Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne’s Professor Michael Parker and his team contributed to the structural biology of the target proteins KAT6A and KAT6B, as well as the corresponding selective inhibitors.
Each year, blowfly infestation of sheep wool, skin and tissue, known as flystrike, results in $280 million losses to the wool industry, not to mention the suffering experienced by the animals themselves.
Bio21's Kat Holt led a study published in Nature Genetics today that concluded that the strain of TB-causing bacteria known as the Beijing lineage, was responsible for 59 per cent of infections, and even more (75%) of those diagnosed in younger people.