DRUG TARGETS: Drug Resistance Patent Issued

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Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (75 Kneeland St Boston, MA 02211; Tel:
617/275-0040 Fax: 617/275-0039; Website: www.Paratekpharm.com) has
announced the issuance of U Patent 6346391 entitled "Methods
of Reducing Microbial Resistance to Drugs." The patent overspreads methods
for inhibiting a of recent origin gene locus, acrAB, associated with remedy resistance
and part of Paratek's "MAR" (Multiple Antibiotic Resistance) program.
The company is already testing preclinical remedy candidates that inhibit
the related mar operon a collection of genes found in a