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: | Mathias H. Hansen, Martina Adamek, Dumitrita Iftime, Daniel Petras, Frauke Schuseil, Stephanie Grond, Evi Stegmann, Max J. Cryle, Nadine Ziemert |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-11-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43451-4 |
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