A three-ring circus: metabolism of the three proteogenic aromatic amino acids and their role in the health of plants and animals

A Parthasarathy, PJ Cross, RCJ Dobson… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tyrosine, phenylalanine and tryptophan are the three aromatic amino acids (AAA) involved
in protein synthesis. These amino acids and their metabolism are linked to the synthesis of a …

Structural simplification of natural products

S Wang, G Dong, C Sheng - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Natural products (NPs) are important sources of clinical drugs due to their structural diversity
and biological prevalidation. However, the structural complexity of NPs leads to synthetic …

The biosynthesis of peptidoglycan lipid-linked intermediates

A Bouhss, AE Trunkfield, TDH Bugg… - FEMS microbiology …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan is a complex process involving many
different steps taking place in the cytoplasm (synthesis of the nucleotide precursors) and on …

Antimicrobial nucleoside antibiotics targeting cell wall assembly: Recent advances in structure–function studies and nucleoside biosynthesis

M Winn, RJM Goss, K Kimura, TDH Bugg - Natural product reports, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2003 to 2009 The quest for new antibiotics, especially those with activity against
Gram-negative bacteria, is urgent; however, very few new antibiotics have been marketed in …

Crystal structure of MraY, an essential membrane enzyme for bacterial cell wall synthesis

BC Chung, J Zhao, RA Gillespie, DY Kwon, Z Guan… - Science, 2013 - science.org
MraY (phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide translocase) is an integral membrane enzyme that
catalyzes an essential step of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis: the transfer of the …

Novel approaches to developing new antibiotics for bacterial infections

ARM Coates, Y Hu - British journal of pharmacology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotics are an essential part of modern medicine. The emergence of antibiotic‐resistant
mutants among bacteria is seemingly inevitable, and results, within a few decades, in …

Breaking down the cell wall: Still an attractive antibacterial strategy

J Zhou, Y Cai, Y Liu, H An, K Deng, MA Ashraf… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Since the advent of penicillin, humans have known about and explored the phenomenon of
bacterial inhibition via antibiotics. However, with changes in the global environment and the …

The membrane steps of bacterial cell wall synthesis as antibiotic targets

Y Liu, E Breukink - Antibiotics, 2016 - mdpi.com
Peptidoglycan is the major component of the cell envelope of virtually all bacteria. It has
structural roles and acts as a selective sieve for molecules from the outer environment …

Reinventing phage therapy: are the parts greater than the sum?

VA Fischetti, D Nelson, R Schuch - Nature biotechnology, 2006 - nature.com
Reinventing phage therapy: are the parts greater than the sum? | Nature Biotechnology
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Structural insights into inhibition of lipid I production in bacterial cell wall synthesis

BC Chung, EH Mashalidis, T Tanino, M Kim, A Matsuda… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection is a serious threat to public health. Peptidoglycan
biosynthesis is a well-established target for antibiotic development. MraY (phospho-MurNAc …