Resurrecting ancestral antibiotics: unveiling the origins of modern lipid II targeting glycopeptides
Abstract Antibiotics are central to modern medicine, and yet they are mainly the products of intra and inter-kingdom evolutionary warfare. To understand how nature evolves antibiotics around a common mechanism of action, we investigated the origins of an extremely valuable class of compounds, lipid...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Nature Portfolio
2023-11-01
|
| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43451-4 |