Biosynthesis of ilamycins featuring unusual building blocks and engineered production of enhanced anti-tuberculosis agents

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest communicable diseases, novel anti-TB agents are urgently needed due to severe drug resistance and the co-epidemic of TB/HIV. Here, the authors show that anti-mycobacterial ilamycin congeners bearing unusual structural units possess extremely pot...

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Main Authors: Junying Ma, Hongbo Huang, Yunchang Xie, Zhiyong Liu, Jin Zhao, Chunyan Zhang, Yanxi Jia, Yun Zhang, Hua Zhang, Tianyu Zhang, Jianhua Ju
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00419-5