{"title":"Phylogeny-Informed Discovery of New Glycopeptide Antibiotics Produced by a Minimal Biosynthetic Gene Cluster","authors":"Xingkun Li, Mengru Wang, Lixin Yin, Jiawei Cao, Rui Wang, Wei Guo, Jing Lu, Zhilong Zhao, Zixin Deng, Anwei Hou, Min Xu","doi":"10.1021/acs.orglett.5c00378","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) are the frontline medicines to treat multidrug-resistant Gram-positive infections. Resistance to GPAs warrants the development of new antibiotics. Phylogeny reclassification of GPA biosynthetic gene clusters with a focus on the type V subgroup bearing a heptapeptide scaffold identified new GPAs, varsomycins, possessing unprecedented 3,5-dihydroxyphenylalanine at position 5 and an F-G biphenyl cross-link. Varsomycins are broadly active against clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> and vancomycin-resistant <i>Enterococcus</i> and are promising lead compounds for resistance-oriented drug innovation.","PeriodicalId":54,"journal":{"name":"Organic Letters","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Organic Letters","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c00378","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
Phylogeny-Informed Discovery of New Glycopeptide Antibiotics Produced by a Minimal Biosynthetic Gene Cluster
Glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) are the frontline medicines to treat multidrug-resistant Gram-positive infections. Resistance to GPAs warrants the development of new antibiotics. Phylogeny reclassification of GPA biosynthetic gene clusters with a focus on the type V subgroup bearing a heptapeptide scaffold identified new GPAs, varsomycins, possessing unprecedented 3,5-dihydroxyphenylalanine at position 5 and an F-G biphenyl cross-link. Varsomycins are broadly active against clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and are promising lead compounds for resistance-oriented drug innovation.
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Organic Letters invites original reports of fundamental research in all branches of the theory and practice of organic, physical organic, organometallic,medicinal, and bioorganic chemistry. Organic Letters provides rapid disclosure of the key elements of significant studies that are of interest to a large portion of the organic community. In selecting manuscripts for publication, the Editors place emphasis on the originality, quality and wide interest of the work. Authors should provide enough background information to place the new disclosure in context and to justify the rapid publication format. Back-to-back Letters will be considered. Full details should be reserved for an Article, which should appear in due course.