Antibiotics have served humankind through their use in modern medicine as effective
treatments for otherwise fatal bacterial infections. Teixobactin is a first member of newly
discovered natural antibiotics that was recently identified from a hitherto-unculturable soil
bacterium, Eleftheria terrae, and recognized as a potent antibacterial agent against various
Gram-positive bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and
vancomycin-resistant enterococci. The most distinctive characteristic of teixobactin as an …