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Combinatorial biosynthesis of novel antibiotics related to daptomycin.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Nov 2006
Nguyen Kien T, Ritz Daniel, Gu Jian-Qiao, Alexander Dylan, Chu Min, Miao Vivian, Brian Paul, Baltz Richard H
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Daptomycin, a cyclic lipopeptide produced by Streptomyces roseosporus, is the active ingredient of Cubicin (daptomycin-for-injection), a first-in-class antibiotic approved for treatment of skin and skin-structure infections caused by Gram-positive pathogens and bacteremia and endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus aureus, including methicillin-resistant strains. Genetic engineering of the nonribosomal peptide...
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