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