Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Trends Pharmacol Sci. 2020 May;41(5):297-299. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2020.03.002. Epub 2020 Apr 1.
Bacteria are extremely adept at overcoming the effects of antibiotics through a variety of mechanisms. As a result, researchers are constantly searching for antibiotics with new mechanisms of action. Culp and coworkers recently utilized a phylogeny-guided approach to mine the genomes of Actinomycetes species for glycopeptides with novel targets. Their efforts yielded the identification of complestatin and corbomycin as antibiotics with a different target than other glycopeptides.
细菌非常擅长通过多种机制来克服抗生素的作用。因此,研究人员一直在寻找具有新作用机制的抗生素。Culp 及其同事最近利用系统发育指导的方法从放线菌属物种的基因组中挖掘具有新型靶标的糖肽。他们的努力确定了 complestatin 和 corbomycin 是具有不同于其他糖肽的靶标的抗生素。