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General Description
• Bacitracin is a mixture of at least nine different cyclic polypeptides, originally isolated from Bacillus bacteria in 1945
• Bacitracins work by binding divalent metal cations and preventing the hydrolysis of lipids into usable cell wall components
Applications
• Bacitracin has been paired with nanoparticles in some laboratory studies to increase its effectivity
• It is suitable for the laboratory study of bacterial resistance, infection, and cross-reactivity
Literature References
Tay, W.M.; Epperson, J.D.; da Silva, G.F.; Ming, L.J. 1H NMR, mechanism, and mononuclear oxidative activity of the antibiotic metallopeptide bacitracin: the role of D-Glu-4, interaction with pyrophosphate moiety, DNA binding and cleavage, and bioactivity. J Am Chem Soc. 2010, 28, 132(16), 5652-61.
Karala, A.R.; Ruddock, L.W. Bacitracin is not a specific inhibitor of protein disulfide isomerase. FEBS J. 2010, 277(11), 2454-62.