The potent antibacterial compound albicidin is synthesized by the plant-pathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas albilineans. Here the authors employ a multidisciplinary approach and provide structural and mechanistic insights into how the drug-binding protein AlbA confers albicidin resistance to Klebsiella oxytoca.
- Lida Rostock
- Ronja Driller
- Roderich D. Süssmuth
