Bacterial compounds named after Keanu Reeves because, like John Wick, it’s a (fungi) killer
JENA, Germany – Upon their discovery that certain bacterial compounds kill fungus, scientists at a German research institute were reminded of lethal action of a Hollywood proportion: specifically, Keanu Reeves in his starring role in the thriller franchise John Wick.
The entertainment company Lionsgate, the distributor of the John Wick films, held a question-and-answer forum on Reddit with Reeves over the weekend, in which he described his reaction to the discovery named after him. “The keanumycins create holes in the surface of the pathogen and it ‘bleeds’ to death,” said the study’s lead author, Dr Sebastian Gotze, a post-doctoral researcher in paleobiotechnology at the Leibniz Institute.
The authors cooked up a broth of bacteria that produce keanumycins and applied it to a hydrangea plant covered with the fungusThey found that the bacteria filled the fungus with holes, freeing the hydrangea of plague and proving that keanumycins work effectively against a plant pest that causes grey mould rot and leads to substantial harvest losses every year., a naturally occurring fungus in the human body whose overproduction can cause infection.
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