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The ensemble of structures samples widely diverse β-clamp architectures and reveals unique protein-ligand interactions with varying degrees of complementarity. Although griselimycin clearly co-evolved with Gram-positive β-clamps, binding affinity measurements demonstrate that the high selectivity observed previously extends to the Gram-negative orthologs, with KD values ranging from 7 to 496 nM for the wild-type orthologs considered. The collective results should aid future structure-guided development of peptide antibiotics against β-clamp proteins of a wide variety of bacterial targets. Structural genomics and binding studies show that a cyclic peptide produced by Streptomyces griseus, griselimycin, exhibits high binding selectivity for diverse DNA polymerase binding sites of various infectious Gram-negative bacteria.","journal":"Communications Biology","year":2024,"id":466840,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9534,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":465591,"name":"Phillip G. 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