Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29568446›Full record

ArticleChemical science2017

Peter 't Hart, Thomas M Wood, Kamaleddin Haj Mohammad Ebrahim Tehrani, Roel M van Harten, Małgorzata Śleszyńska, Inmaculada Rentero Rebollo, Antoni P A Hendrickx, Rob J L Willems, Eefjan Breukink, Nathaniel I Martin

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Article in Chemical science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Peter 't HartDepartment of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery , Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , Utrecht University , Universiteitsweg 99 , 3584 CG Utrecht , The Netherlands . Email: n.i.martin@uu.nl.
Thomas M WoodDepartment of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery , Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , Utrecht University , Universiteitsweg 99 , 3584 CG Utrecht , The Netherlands . Email: n.i.martin@uu.nl.
Kamaleddin Haj Mohammad Ebrahim TehraniDepartment of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery , Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , Utrecht University , Universiteitsweg 99 , 3584 CG Utrecht , The Netherlands . Email: n.i.martin@uu.nl.
Roel M van HartenDepartment of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery , Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , Utrecht University , Universiteitsweg 99 , 3584 CG Utrecht , The Netherlands . Email: n.i.martin@uu.nl.
Małgorzata ŚleszyńskaDepartment of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery , Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , Utrecht University , Universiteitsweg 99 , 3584 CG Utrecht , The Netherlands . Email: n.i.martin@uu.nl.
Inmaculada Rentero RebolloInstitute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Lausanne , Switzerland.
Antoni P A HendrickxDepartment of Medical Microbiology , University Medical Center , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
Rob J L WillemsDepartment of Medical Microbiology , University Medical Center , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
Eefjan BreukinkMembrane Biochemistry and Biophysics Group , Department of Chemistry , Utrecht University , The Netherlands.
Nathaniel I MartinDepartment of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery , Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , Utrecht University , Universiteitsweg 99 , 3584 CG Utrecht , The Netherlands . Email: n.i.martin@uu.nl.ORCID 0000-0001-8246-3006

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Creative strategies for identifying new antibiotics are essential to addressing the looming threat of a post-antibiotic era. We here report the use of a targeted peptide phage display screen as a means of generating novel antimicrobial lipopeptides. Specifically, a library of phage displayed bicyclic peptides was screened against a biomolecular target based on the bacterial cell wall precursor lipid II. In doing so we identified unique lipid II binding peptides that upon lipidation were found to be active against a range of Gram-positive bacteria including clinically relevant strains of vancomycin resistant bacteria. Optimization of the peptide sequence led to variants with enhanced antibacterial activity and reduced hemolytic activity. Biochemical experiments further confirm a lipid II mediated mode of action for these new-to-nature antibacterial lipopeptides.

Identifiers

PMID29568446
PMCPMC5853558

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