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Structures of Kibdelomycin Bound to Staphylococcus aureus GyrB and ParE Showed a Novel U-Shaped Binding Mode
26 Jun 2014
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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics continues to pose serious challenges as the discovery rate for new antibiotics fades. Kibdelomycin is one of the rare, novel, natural product antibiotics discovered recently that inhibits the bacterial DNA synthesis enzymes gyrase and topoisomerase IV. It is a broad-spectrum, Gram-positive antibiotic without cross-resistance to known gyrase inhibitors, including clinically...
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