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Open AccessEnvironmental fatty acids enable emergence of infectious Staphylococcus aureus resistant to FASII-targeted antimicrobials
The bacterial pathway for fatty acid biosynthesis, FASII, is a target for development of new anti-staphylococcal drugs. This strategy is based on previous reports indicating that self-synthesized fatty acids a...
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Brinster et al. reply
Replying to: W. Balemans et al. Nature 462, 10.1038/nature08667 (2009)
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Type II fatty acid synthesis is not a suitable antibiotic target for Gram-positive pathogens
The type II fatty acid synthesis (FASII) pathway has been suggested to be a promising antimicrobial target, and the antibiotics platensimycin and platencin that target this pathway are claimed to be potentiall...