Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Kistamicin biosynthesis reveals the biosynthetic requirements for production of highly crosslinked glycopeptide antibiotics

  • Anja Greule,
  • Thierry Izoré,
  • Dumitrita Iftime,
  • Julien Tailhades,
  • Melanie Schoppet,
  • Yongwei Zhao,
  • Madeleine Peschke,
  • Iftekhar Ahmed,
  • Andreas Kulik,
  • Martina Adamek,
  • Robert J. A. Goode,
  • Ralf B. Schittenhelm,
  • Joe A. Kaczmarski,
  • Colin J. Jackson,
  • Nadine Ziemert,
  • Elizabeth H. Krenske,
  • James J. De Voss,
  • Evi Stegmann,
  • Max J. Cryle

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10384-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Kistamicin is a structurally divergent glycopeptide antibiotic (GPA) that contains a unique 15-membered A-O-B ring. Here, the authors obtained a crystal structure of the kistamicin OxyA/X-domain complex and analysed the cyclisation cascade leading to the formation of the A-O-B ring.