{"id":11716,"date":"2023-06-03T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T04:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:32:13","slug":"what-is-abaucin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-abaucin\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Abaucin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Abaucin:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is known to compromise the normal function of a <strong>protein called CCR2.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It appears to work by disrupting lipoprotein trafficking in A. baumannii.<\/li>\n<li>Based on genetic studies, the researchers believe that abaucin could be preventing lipoprotein produced inside the bacteria from moving to the outer membrane.<\/li>\n<li>Abaucin is also \u201cspecies-selective\u201d, it only disrupts the growth of A. baumannii, not other Gram-negative bacteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is an Acinetobacter baumanni?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Gram-negative bacteria<\/strong>, which means it has a protective outer membrane that allows it to resist antibiotics.<\/li>\n<li>It has been associated with <strong>hospital-acquired infections<\/strong> in India.<\/li>\n<li>It was acknowledged to be a \u201c<strong>red alert\u201d pathogen<\/strong> because of its exceptional ability to develop resistance to all currently available antibiotics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Q1) What is Gram-negative bacteria?<\/p>\n<p>Gram-negative bacteria are a group of bacteria that are characterized by their response to the Gram staining technique, which is a method used to classify bacteria into two broad categories: Gram-positive and Gram-negative. Gram-negative bacteria have a unique cell wall structure that distinguishes them from Gram-positive bacteria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/abaucin-acinetobacter-baumannii-antimicrobial-resistance-machine-learning\/article66914495.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Explained | Abaucin, the potential new antibiotic found with machine-learning<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abaucin is known to compromise the normal function of a protein called CCR2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}