| Literature DB >> 16641438 |
Magally Romero-Tabarez1, Rolf Jansen, Marita Sylla, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Susanne Häussler, Dwi A Santosa, Kenneth N Timmis, Gabriella Molinari.
Abstract
We report here the discovery, isolation, and chemical and preliminary biological characterization of a new antibiotic compound, 7-O-malonyl macrolactin A (MMA), produced by a Bacillus subtilis soil isolate. MMA is a bacteriostatic antibiotic that inhibits a number of multidrug-resistant gram-positive bacterial pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and a small-colony variant of Burkholderia cepacia. MMA-treated staphylococci and enterococci were pseudomulticellular and exhibited multiple asymmetric initiation points of septum formation, indicating that MMA may inhibit a cell division function.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16641438 PMCID: PMC1472237 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.5.1701-1709.2006
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191