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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
Syroegin, E. A., Aleksandrova, E. V., Kruglov, A. A., Paranjpe, M. N., Svetlov, M. S., and Polikanov, Y. S. (2025) Structural insights into context-specific inhibition of bacterial translation by macrolides. Nat Commun. 16, 9685
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