Abroad-spectrumlassopeptideantibiotic
targetingthebacterialribosome
1,2,3,74,5,761,2,3
/10.1038/s41586-025-08723-7ManojJangra,DmitriiY.Travin,ElenaV.Aleksandrova,ManpreetKaur,
1,2,31,2,34,51,2,31,2,3
LenaDarwish,KalinkaKoteva,DorotaKlepacki,WenliangWang,MayaTiffany,
Received:9September20241,2,31,2,34,54,5,6??
AkosiereremSokaribo,BrianK.Coombes,NoraVázquez-Laslop,YuryS.Polikanov,
Accepted:30January20254,5??GerardD.Wright1,2,3??
AlexanderS.Mankin
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CheckforupdatesLassopeptides(biologicallyactivemoleculeswithadistinctstructurallyconstrained
knottedfold)arenaturalproductsthatbelongtotheclassofribosomallysynthesized
andpost-translationallymodifedpeptides1–3.Lassopeptidesactonseveralbacterial
targets4,5,butnonehavebeenreportedtoinhibittheribosome,oneofthemain
targetsofantibioticsinthebacterialcell6,7.Herewerepor