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| | NTI: Global Security Newswire |
 | | Young, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Collier, at Harvard University in Massachusetts, along with their colleagues Kenneth Bradley, Jeremy Mogridge and Michael Mourez found a compound, called sATR, that binds to molecules of protective antigen. |
 | | In another project, Collier and his colleague George Whitesides are looking for drugs that would bind around the hole of a protective antigen ring, clogging the hole in the toxin syringe. |
 | | In a new treatment that is probably closest to being ready for human testing, mutant forms of protective antigen alter the seven-molecule protective antigen ring itself, Young and Collier said. |
| www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/2002/3/8/8s.html (476 words) |
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