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Engineering unnatural variants of plantazolicin through codon reprogramming.
ACS chemical biology - 20 Sept 2013
Deane Caitlin D, Melby Joel O, Molohon Katie J, Susarrey Aziz R, Mitchell Douglas A
Abstract excerpt
Plantazolicin (PZN) is a polyheterocyclic natural product derived from a ribosomal peptide that harbors remarkable antibiotic selectivity for the causative agent of anthrax, Bacillus anthracis. To simultaneously establish the structure-activity relationship of PZN and the substrate tolerance of the biosynthetic pathway, an Escherichia coli expression strain was engineered to heterologously produce PZN analogues....
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