6rji

Publication Abstract from PubMed

Elongation factor P (EF-P) is a translation protein factor that plays an important role in specialized translation of consecutive proline amino acid motifs. EF-P is an essential protein for cell fitness in native environmental conditions. It regulates synthesis of proteins involved in bacterial motility, environmental adaptation and bacterial virulence, thus making EF-P a potential drug target. In the present study, we determined the solution and crystal structure of EF-P from the pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus at 1.48 A resolution. The structure can serve as a platform for structure-based drug design of novel antibiotics to combat the growing antibiotic resistance of S. aureus.

NMR and crystallographic structural studies of the Elongation factor P from Staphylococcus aureus.,Golubev A, Fatkhullin B, Gabdulkhakov A, Bikmullin A, Nurullina L, Garaeva N, Islamov D, Klochkova E, Klochkov V, Aganov A, Khusainov I, Validov S, Yusupova G, Yusupov M, Usachev K Eur Biophys J. 2020 Mar 9. pii: 10.1007/s00249-020-01428-x. doi:, 10.1007/s00249-020-01428-x. PMID:32152681^[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.