Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

GPAHex-A synthetic biology platform for Type IV–V glycopeptide antibiotic production and discovery

  • Min Xu,
  • Wenliang Wang,
  • Nicholas Waglechner,
  • Elizabeth J. Culp,
  • Allison K. Guitor,
  • Gerard D. Wright

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19138-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Expansion of the chemical diversity of glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) to deal with the emergence and spread of GPA resistance is challenging. Here, the authors report a GPA synthetic biology platform in Streptomyces coelicolor for Type IV–V glycopeptide antibiotic production and discovery.