OG716: Designing a fit-for-purpose lantibiotic for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infections.

Lantibiotics continue to offer an untapped pipeline for the development of novel antibiotics. We report here the discovery of a novel lantibiotic for the treatment of C. difficile infection (CDI). The leads were selected from a library of over 300 multiple substitution variants of the lantibiotic Mu...

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Main Authors: Johan A Kers, Anthony W DeFusco, Jae H Park, Jin Xu, Mark E Pulse, William J Weiss, Martin Handfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5997364?pdf=render