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SUBMITTER: Jin K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4976201 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jin Kang K Sam Iek Hou IH Po Kathy Hiu Laam KHL Lin Du'an D Ghazvini Zadeh Ebrahim H EH Chen Sheng S Yuan Yu Y Li Xuechen X
Nature communications 20160803
To cope with the global bacterial multidrug resistance, scientific communities have devoted significant efforts to develop novel antibiotics, particularly those with new modes of actions. Teixobactin, recently isolated from uncultured bacteria, is considered as a promising first-in-class drug candidate for clinical development. Herein, we report its total synthesis by a highly convergent Ser ligation approach and this strategy allows us to prepare several analogues of the natural product. ...[more]