Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Structures of lipoprotein signal peptidase II from Staphylococcus aureus complexed with antibiotics globomycin and myxovirescin

  • Samir Olatunji,
  • Xiaoxiao Yu,
  • Jonathan Bailey,
  • Chia-Ying Huang,
  • Marta Zapotoczna,
  • Katherine Bowen,
  • Maja Remškar,
  • Rolf Müller,
  • Eoin M. Scanlan,
  • Joan A. Geoghegan,
  • Vincent Olieric,
  • Martin Caffrey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13724-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The enzyme LspA from the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) contributes to the integrity and function of the bacterial cell envelope. Here, authors provide crystal structures of LspA in complex with two natural antibiotics, which have profoundly different structures but inhibit LspA in an identical way.