Discovery and development of lantibiotics; antimicrobial agents that have significant potential for medical application

Production of a Class II Two-Component Lantibiotic of Streptococcus pneumoniae Using the Class I Nisin Synthetic Machinery and Leader Sequence

(2010) J. A. Majchrzykiewicz et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Microbial engineering of dehydro-amino acids and lanthionines in non-lantibiotic peptides

(2010) Gert N. Moll et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The dawning of a ‘Golden era’ in lantibiotic bioengineering

(2010) Des Field et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

BAGEL2: mining for bacteriocins in genomic data

(2010) Anne de Jong et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Purification and characterization of a novel delta-lysin variant that inhibits Staphylococcus aureus and has limited hemolytic activity

(2010) Mohammed Al-Mahrous et al.   PEPTIDES

Catalytic promiscuity in the biosynthesis of cyclic peptide secondary metabolites in planktonic marine cyanobacteria

(2010) B. Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plectasin, a Fungal Defensin, Targets the Bacterial Cell Wall Precursor Lipid II

(2010) T. Schneider et al.   SCIENCE

Self-Assembled Plasmonic Nanoparticle Clusters

(2010) J. A. Fan et al.   SCIENCE

Discovery of Unique Lanthionine Synthetases Reveals New Mechanistic and Evolutionary Insights

(2010) Yuki Goto et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Insights into the Mode of Action of the Two-Peptide Lantibiotic Haloduracin

(2009) Trent J. Oman et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Identification of a Novel Two-Peptide Lantibiotic, Lichenicidin, following Rational Genome Mining for LanM Proteins

(2009) M. Begley et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Distributive and Directional Behavior of Lantibiotic Synthetases Revealed by High-Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometry

(2009) M. Violet Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

In Vitro Mutasynthesis of Lantibiotic Analogues Containing Nonproteinogenic Amino Acids

(2009) Matthew R. Levengood et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Drug Discovery and Natural Products: End of an Era or an Endless Frontier?

(2009) J. W.-H. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Inhibition of Bacillus anthracis Spore Outgrowth by Nisin

(2008) I. M. Gut et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY