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2025
Jangra, M., Travin, D. Y., Aleksandrova, E. V., Kaur, M., Darwish, L., Koteva, K., Klepacki, D., Wang, W., Tiffany, M., Sokaribo, A., Coombes, B. K., Vázquez-Laslop, N., Polikanov, Y. S., Mankin, A. S., and Wright, G. D. (2025) A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome. Nature. 10.1038/s41586-025-08723-7
Tresco, B. I. C., J Y Wu, K., Ramkissoon, A., Aleksandrova, E. V., Purdy, M., N Y See, D., Liu, R. Y., Polikanov, Y. S., and Myers, A. G. (2025) Discovery of a fluorinated macrobicyclic antibiotic through chemical synthesis. Nat Chem. 10.1038/s41557-025-01738-7
Aleksandrova, E. V., Syroegin, E. A., Basu, R. S., Vassilevski, A. A., Gagnon, M. G., and Polikanov, Y. S. (2025) Mechanism of release factor-mediated peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis on the ribosome. Science. 388, eads9030
J Y Wu, K., Aleksandrova, E. V., Robinson, P. J., Benedetto, A. E., Yu, M., Tresco, B. I. C., N Y See, D., Jiang, T., Ramkissoon, A., Dunand, C. F., Svetlov, M. S., Lee, J., Polikanov, Y. S., and Myers, A. G. (2025) Why Sulfur is Important in Lincosamide Antibiotics. Chem. 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102480
2024
Huang, W., Baliga, C., Aleksandrova, E. V., Atkinson, G., Polikanov, Y. S., Vázquez-Laslop, N., and Mankin, A. S. (2024) Activity, structure, and diversity of Type II proline-rich antimicrobial peptides from insects. EMBO Rep. 25, 5194-5211
J Y Wu, K., Tresco, B. I. C., Ramkissoon, A., Aleksandrova, E. V., Syroegin, E. A., N Y See, D., Liow, P., Dittemore, G. A., Yu, M., Testolin, G., Mitcheltree, M. J., Liu, R. Y., Svetlov, M. S., Polikanov, Y. S., and Myers, A. G. (2024) An antibiotic preorganized for ribosomal binding overcomes antimicrobial resistance. Science. 383, 721-726
Aleksandrova, E. V., Ma, C. - X., Klepacki, D., Alizadeh, F., Vázquez-Laslop, N., Liang, J. - H., Polikanov, Y. S., and Mankin, A. S. (2024) Macrolones target bacterial ribosomes and DNA gyrase and can evade resistance mechanisms. Nat Chem Biol. 10.1038/s41589-024-01685-3
Aleksandrova, E. V., J Y Wu, K., Tresco, B. I. C., Syroegin, E. A., Killeavy, E. E., Balasanyants, S. M., Svetlov, M. S., Gregory, S. T., Atkinson, G. C., Myers, A. G., and Polikanov, Y. S. (2024) Structural basis of Cfr-mediated antimicrobial resistance and mechanisms to evade it. Nat Chem Biol. 20, 867-876
2022
Syroegin, E. A., Aleksandrova, E. V., and Polikanov, Y. S. (2022) Insights into the ribosome function from the structures of non-arrested ribosome-nascent chain complexes. Nat Chem. 10.1038/s41557-022-01073-1
Syroegin, E. A., Aleksandrova, E. V., and Polikanov, Y. S. (2022) Structural basis for the inability of chloramphenicol to inhibit peptide bond formation in the presence of A-site glycine. Nucleic Acids Res. 50, 7669-7679
2021
Svetlov, M. S., Syroegin, E. A., Aleksandrova, E. V., Atkinson, G. C., Gregory, S. T., Mankin, A. S., and Polikanov, Y. S. (2021) Structure of Erm-modified 70S ribosome reveals the mechanism of macrolide resistance. Nat Chem Biol. 10.1038/s41589-020-00715-0