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Towards a new tuberculosis drug: pyridomycin - nature's isoniazid.
EMBO molecular medicine - 1 Oct 2012
Hartkoorn Ruben C, Sala Claudia, Neres João, Pojer Florence, Magnet Sophie, Mukherjee Raju, Uplekar Swapna, Boy-Röttger Stefanie, Altmann Karl-Heinz, Cole Stewart T
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Tuberculosis, a global threat to public health, is becoming untreatable due to widespread drug resistance to frontline drugs such as the InhA-inhibitor isoniazid. Historically, by inhibiting highly vulnerable targets, natural products have been an important source of antibiotics including potent anti-tuberculosis agents. Here, we describe pyridomycin, a compound produced by Dactylosporangium fulvum with specific...
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