Abstract

Microbial natural products and the specific subset with antibiotic activity, 'the antibiotic'ome', consist of a dizzying array of structures and exert their effects by many known modes of action. In this issue, Cociancich et al. describe a unique natural product that—along with a compound identified in a recent publication by Baumann et al.—defines a new antibacterial chemical scaffold that acts on a rarely hit target, DNA gyrase subunit A.

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