Abstract
We have shown that the intentional engineering of a natural product biosynthesis pathway is a useful way to generate stereochemically complex scaffolds for use in the generation of combinatorial libraries that capture the structural features of both natural products and synthetic compounds. Analysis of a prototype library based upon nonactic acid lead to the discovery of triazole-containing nonactic acid analogs, a new structural class of antibiotic that exhibits bactericidal activity against drug resistant, Gram-positive pathogens including Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecalis.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5936-5938 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 19 |
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| State | Published - Oct 1 2010 |
Keywords
- Antibiotic
- Biosynthesis
- Nonactin
- Triazoloester