Plant toxin hailed as ‘new weapon’ in antibiotic war against bacteria

Published on January 31, 2023

Scientists say albicidin has allowed them to take a giant step forward to creating a powerful new range of antibacterial drugs

The new antibiotic – albicidin – attacks bacteria in a completely different way to existing drugs, a group of British, German and Polish scientists have revealed in a paper recently published in the journal Nature Catalysis. This suggests a new route could be exploited to tackle bacterial disease, they say.

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The article cited is by Michalczyk, E., Hommernick, K., Behroz, I. et al. Molecular mechanism of topoisomerase poisoning by the peptide antibiotic albicidin. Nat Catal 6, 52–67 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-022-00904-1

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