Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Gram-scale total synthesis of teixobactin promoting binding mode study and discovery of more potent antibiotics

  • Yu Zong,
  • Fang Fang,
  • Kirsten J. Meyer,
  • Liguo Wang,
  • Zhihao Ni,
  • Hongying Gao,
  • Kim Lewis,
  • Jingren Zhang,
  • Yu Rao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11211-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The presence of the unnatural amino acid l-allo-enduracidine in the cyclic scaffold of teixobactin complicates its total synthesis. Here, the authors developed a convergent strategy for the scalable synthesis teixobactin and found two potent analogous.