Are antivitamins the new antibiotics?

[dan_bgblue]

University of Göttingen
(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824131805.htm)
Antibiotics are among the most important discoveries of modern medicine and have saved millions of lives since the discovery of penicillin almost 100 years ago. However, bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics which then leaves doctors struggling to find effective treatments. Researchers have now described a promising new approach involving 'antivitamins' to develop new classes of antibiotics.

[PedroDaGr8]

University of Göttingen
(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824131805.htm)
Antibiotics are among the most important discoveries of modern medicine and have saved millions of lives since the discovery of penicillin almost 100 years ago. However, bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics which then leaves doctors struggling to find effective treatments. Researchers have now described a promising new approach involving 'antivitamins' to develop new classes of antibiotics.

This is actually how some antivirals work. They mimic a necessary peptide, compound, etc. (no different from a vitamin) but are tweaked in a way that they "gum up" the mechanism and keep it from working. Seeing this mechanism applied to bacteria makes sense and sounds promising.