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A new antibiotic from an uncultured bacterium binds to an immutable target
R. Shukla, A. J. Peoples, K. C. Ludwig…·M. Weingarth
This paper discovers a new antibiotic, clovibactin, from uncultured bacteria that targets pyrophosphate in bacterial cell wall precursors, effectively killing drug-resistant pathogens without resistance.
DOI 10.1101/2023.05.15.540765