Chapter 19: High-resolution NMR Studies of Antibiotics in Membranes
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Published:17 Aug 2022
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Special Collection: 2022 ebook collectionSeries: New Developments in NMR
M. Derks, L. Smid, R. Kumar, L. M. Becker, R. Shukla, E. Breukink, and M. Weingarth, in NMR Spectroscopy for Probing Functional Dynamics at Biological Interfaces, ed. A. Bhunia, H. S. Atreya, and N. Sinha, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022, ch. 19, pp. 563-582.
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The rapid rise of antimicrobial resistance calls for the development of new antibiotics. Ideal templates for next-generation antibiotics could be drugs that target the cell wall precursor, Lipid II, with vancomycin, nisin, or teixobactin being well-known examples. In this chapter the authors review a selection of NMR studies on the mode of action of Lipid II-binding antibiotics with an emphasis on solid-state NMR findings in lipid membranes that are vital to obtain physiologically relevant drug-binding modes.