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Arsinothricin, an arsenic-containing non-proteinogenic amino acid analog of glutamate, is a broad-spectrum antibiotic

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Published in 2019 at "Communications Biology"

DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0365-y

Abstract: The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance highlights the urgent need for new antibiotics. Organoarsenicals have been used as antimicrobials since Paul Ehrlich’s salvarsan. Recently a soil bacterium was shown to produce the organoarsenical arsinothricin.… read more here.

Keywords: arsinothricin; non proteinogenic; broad spectrum; spectrum antibiotic ... See more keywords