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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Trojan horse peptide conjugates remodel the activity spectrum of clinical antibiotics.

Shangwen Luo, Xin-Rong Li, Xiao-Tong Gong, Alexey Kulikovsky, Feng Qu, Konstantinos Beis, Konstantin Severinov, Svetlana Dubiley, Xinxin Feng, Shi-Hui Dong and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Late-Stage Posttranslational Assembly of Fosfazinomycins.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance ofInfectious disease reports · 2026
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  6. Development of an RT-LAMP Assay for DetectingDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Shangwen Luo *State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-2162-2477
Xin-Rong Li *State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China.
Xiao-Tong GongState Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0009-0006-2718-4366
Alexey KulikovskyInstitute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119334, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-5043-9810
Feng QuDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7168-9018
Konstantinos BeisDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5727-4721
Konstantin SeverinovInstitute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119334, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-9706-450X
Svetlana DubileyInstitute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119334, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-9225-5534
Xinxin FengInstitute of Chemical Biology and Nanomedicine, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-3142-5629
Shi-Hui DongState Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-1743-2163
Satish K NairDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.ORCID 0000-0003-1790-1334

Funding

Exploring Peptide Conjugates as Trojan Horse Systems for Drug Design and DiscoveryR01AI117210 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI NAIR, SATISH K · 2016 to 2020
$2.2M
Structure, Function, and Engineering of RiPP Biosynthetic EnzymesR35GM151874 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Satish K Nair · 2024 to 2026
$1.8M
Structural Biological Studies of Thipeptide Biosynthesis and EngineeringR01GM131347 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI NAIR, SATISH K · 2019 to 2022
$1.2M
Exploring Peptide Conjugates as Trojan Horse Systems for Drug Design and Discovery.R56AI117210 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI NAIR, SATISH K · 2015 to 2015
$467k
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) AI117210HHS | NIH (NIH) GM151874NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI117210NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI117210NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM131347NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM151874
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infections caused by gram-negative pathogens continue to be a major risk to human health because of the innate antibiotic resistance endowed by their unique cell membrane architecture. Nature has developed an elegant solution to target gram-negative strains, namely by conjugating toxic antibiotic warheads to a suitable carrier to facilitate the active import of the drug to a specific target organism. Microcin C7 (McC) is a Trojan horse peptide-conjugated antibiotic that specifically targets enterobacteria by exploiting active import through oligopeptide transport systems. Here, we characterize the molecular mechanism of McC recognition by YejA, the solute binding protein of the

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsPeptidesAmino Acid SequenceBinding SitesDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsFluorescein-5-isothiocyanateHumansLigandsModels, MolecularSerumAnti-Bacterial AgentsEscherichia coli ProteinsFluorescein-5-isothiocyanateLigandsPeptidesantibioticsgram-negativetransporter

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PMID39739799
PMCPMC11725936

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