Resurrecting ancestral antibiotics: unveiling the origins of modern lipid II targeting glycopeptides - Nature.com
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Glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) are microbial natural products synthesized by multiple enzymes, including a nonribosomal peptide synthetase for assembly of the peptide core. Here, the authors use computational techniques to infer a gene set for biosynthesis o…