Chemistry and biology of ramoplanin: A lipoglycodepsipeptide with potent antibiotic activity

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Walker, S [1 ]
Chen, L
Hu, YN
Rew, Y
Shin, DW
Boger, DL
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[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol & Mol Genet, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] Scripps Res Inst, Dept Chem, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
[3] Scripps Res Inst, Skaggs Inst Chem Biol, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
[4] Princeton Univ, Dept Chem, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
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10.1021/cr030106n
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O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
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Today, there is a clear need for new antibiotics to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections. Antibiotics that operate by new mechanisms or belong to new structural classes are attractive because they are less likely to show cross-resistance with existing antibiotics. One such antibiotic is ramoplanin which is currently in Phase III clinical trials for the prevention of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections in hospitalized patients. Initial results show that the transglycosilation step of peptidoglycan biosynthesis is the likely target for this molecule.
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