New antibiotics from bacterial natural products

For the past five decades, the need for new antibiotics has been met largely by semisynthetic tailoring of natural product scaffolds discovered in the middle of the 20 th century. More recently, however, advances in technology have sparked a resurgence in the discovery of natural product antibiotics...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature biotechnology 2006-12, Vol.24 (12), p.1541-1550
Hauptverfasser: Walsh, Christopher T, Clardy, Jon, Fischbach, Michael A
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:For the past five decades, the need for new antibiotics has been met largely by semisynthetic tailoring of natural product scaffolds discovered in the middle of the 20 th century. More recently, however, advances in technology have sparked a resurgence in the discovery of natural product antibiotics from bacterial sources. In particular, efforts have refocused on finding new antibiotics from old sources (for example, streptomycetes) and new sources (for example, other actinomycetes, cyanobacteria and uncultured bacteria). This has resulted in several newly discovered antibiotics with unique scaffolds and/or novel mechanisms of action, with the potential to form a basis for new antibiotic classes addressing bacterial targets that are currently underexploited.
ISSN:1087-0156
1546-1696
DOI:10.1038/nbt1266