Abstract:In a 2016 screen of natural product extracts a new family of natural products, the cahuitamycins, was discovered and found to inhibit the formation of biofilms in the human pathogen <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>. The molecules contain an unusual piperazate residue that raises structure/function and biosynthesis questions and resemble iron-trafficking virulence factors from <i>A. baumannii</i>, suggesting a connection between metal homeostasis and biofilm-mediated pathogenicity. Here we… Show more
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