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Opportunities for Synthetic Biology in Antibiotics: Expanding Glycopeptide Chemical Diversity
17 Dec 2012
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Synthetic biology offers a new path for the exploitation and improvement of natural products to address the growing crisis in antibiotic resistance. All antibiotics in clinical use are facing eventual obsolesce as a result of the evolution and dissemination of resistance mechanisms, yet there are few new drug leads forthcoming from the pharmaceutical sector. Natural products of microbial origin have proven over...
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