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SUBMITTER: Nicolaou KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2783895 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20091101 43
The secondary metabolites platensimycin and platencin, isolated from the bacterial strain Streptomyces platensis, represent a novel class of natural products exhibiting unique and potent antibacterial activity. Platencin, though structurally similar to platensimycin, has been found to operate through a slightly different mechanism of action involving the dual inhibition of lipid elongation enzymes FabF and FabH. Both natural products exhibit strong, broad-spectrum, gram-positive antibacterial ac ...[more]