The discovery of antibiotics has led to the effective treatment of bacterial infections that were otherwise fatal and has had a transformative effect on modern medicine. Teixobactin is an unusual depsipeptide natural product that was recently discovered from a previously unculturable soil bacteri...
Background: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) biofilms exhibit high levels of drug resistance and cause nosocomial infections in humans, thus posing a sustainable global health threat. This underscores the critical need to develop novel antibiofilm therapeutics with high efficacy...