Jonas Henrique Costa-Martini

The paper investigates imacidin, a cyclic lipopeptide that inhibits the lipid II flippase MurJ, identifying it as a taxa-specific antibacterial agent with potential for precision antibiotics.

This paper identifies gammanonin, a natural product from Gammaproteobacteria that inhibits bacterial peptide deformylase without the toxic hydroxamate group found in actinonin.