Washington, Aug 19: Researchers from Stanford University have come up with a new method to combat diseases that have developed multiple drug resistance.
The researchers revealed that using an arginine-rich transporter to ferry a potent medication inside a resistant cell would help restore the drug effectiveness.
Arginine is an amino acid, the building block of proteins, and as such is found in virtually every cell in the human body, as well as other mammalian bodies.
"Nature has developed all of this firepower for getting things into cells, and one of the ways is to create entities that are arginine-rich," said Paul Wender, the Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.