A Natural Plasmid Uniquely Encodes Two Biosynthetic Pathways Creating a Potent Anti-MRSA Antibiotic [PDF]
, 2011 Background Understanding how complex antibiotics are synthesised by their producer bacteria is essential for creation of new families of bioactive compounds. Thiomarinols, produced by marine bacteria belonging to the genus Pseudoalteromonas, are hybrids
Cox, Russell J. +11 more
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Bacterial riboproteogenomics : the era of N-terminal proteoform existence revealed [PDF]
, 2020 With the rapid increase in the number of sequenced prokaryotic genomes, relying on automated gene annotation became a necessity. Multiple lines of evidence, however, suggest that current bacterial genome annotations may contain inconsistencies and are ...
Fijalkowska, Daria +3 more
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Nucleosided derived antibiotics to fight microbial drug resistance: New utilities for an established class of drugs? [PDF]
, 2016 Novel antibiotics are urgently needed to combat the rise of infections due to drug-resistant microorganisms. Numerous natural nucleosides and their synthetically modified analogues have been reported to have moderate to good antibiotic activity against ...
Ferrari, Valentina +2 more
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Inhibition of phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide translocase (MraY) by nucleoside natural product antibiotics, bacteriophage
, 2016 This review covers recent developments in the inhibition of translocase MraY and related phospho-GlcNAc transferases WecA and TagO, and insight into the inhibition and catalytic mechanism of this class of integral membrane proteins from the structure of ...
Bugg, Tim +3 more
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A genomic analysis and transcriptomic atlas of gene expression in Psoroptes ovis reveals feeding- and stage-specific patterns of allergen expression [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Psoroptic mange, caused by infestation with the ectoparasitic mite, Psoroptes ovis, is highly contagious, resulting in intense pruritus and represents a major welfare and economic concern for the livestock industry Worldwide.
Bartley, Kathryn +11 more
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Filling the Gaps to Solve the Extensin Puzzle [PDF]
, 2018 Extensins (EXTs) are highly repetitive plant O-glycoproteins that require several post-translational modifications (PTMs) to become functional in plant cell walls.
Borassi, Cecilia +6 more
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Chemical probing of thiotetronate bio-assembly [PDF]
, 2017 Chemical ‘chain termination’ probes were utilised for the investigation of thiotetronate antibiotic biosynthesis in the filamentous bacteria Lentzea sp. and Streptomyces thiolactonus NRRL 15439.
Harringer, Sophia +8 more
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Chemoenzymatic and Template-Directed Synthesis of Bioactive Macrocyclic Peptides [PDF]
, 2005 Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) are large multienzyme complexes, which simultaneously represent template and biosynthetic machinery for the production of structurally diverse peptidic products that feature high pharmacological and biological ...
Grünewald, Jan +1 more
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The role of the phosphopantetheinyltransferase enzyme, PswP, in the biosynthesis of antimicrobial secondary metabolites by Serratia marcescens Db10 [PDF]
, 2014 Phosphopantetheinyltransferase (PPTase) enzymes fulfil essential roles in primary and secondary metabolism in prokaryotes, archaea and eukaryotes. PPTase enzymes catalyse the essential modification of the carrier protein domain of fatty acid synthases ...
Amy J. Gerc +9 more
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Resistance to ketolide antibiotics by coordinated expression of rRNA methyltransferases in a bacterial producer of natural ketolides [PDF]
, 2015 Significance Studies of antibiotic resistance are usually initiated in earnest only after resistance has become established in clinical pathogens.
Almutairi, Mashal M +7 more
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