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SUBMITTER: Cheng M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4249368 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20140902 11
Ramoplanin is an actinomycetes-derived antibiotic with broad-spectrum activity against Gram-positive bacteria that has been evaluated in clinical trials for the treatment of gastrointestinal vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and Clostridium difficile infections. Recent studies have proposed that ramoplanin binds to bacterial membranes as a C2 symmetrical dimer that can sequester Lipid II, which causes inhibition of cell wall peptidoglycan biosynthesis and cell death. In this study, ramoplan ...[more]