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ReviewACS synthetic biology2015

Opportunities for synthetic biology in antibiotics: expanding glycopeptide chemical diversity.

Maulik N Thaker, Gerard D Wright

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Review in ACS synthetic biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. Synthetic biology for pharmaceutical drug discovery.Drug design, development and therapy · 2015
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  18. Old and New Glycopeptide Antibiotics: Action and Resistance.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Maulik N ThakerM.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1 Canada.
Gerard D WrightM.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1 Canada.

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic biology offers a new path for the exploitation and improvement of natural products to address the growing crisis in antibiotic resistance. All antibiotics in clinical use are facing eventual obsolesce as a result of the evolution and dissemination of resistance mechanisms, yet there are few new drug leads forthcoming from the pharmaceutical sector. Natural products of microbial origin have proven over the past 70 years to be the wellspring of antimicrobial drugs. Harnessing synthetic biology thinking and strategies can provide new molecules and expand chemical diversity of known antibiotic scaffolds to provide much needed new drug leads. The glycopeptide antibiotics offer paradigmatic scaffolds suitable for such an approach. We review these strategies here using the glycopeptides as an example and demonstrate how synthetic biology can expand antibiotic chemical diversity to help address the growing resistance crisis.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsDrug DiscoveryGlycopeptidesSynthetic BiologyDrug Resistance, MicrobialMolecular BiologyAnti-Bacterial AgentsGlycopeptidesantibiotic scaffoldglycopeptidesheterologous hostresistancesynthetic biologytailoring enzymes

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PMID23654249
PMCPMC4384835

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