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The problem is further amplified by the limited number of antimicrobial targets in bacteria that are affected by the current pool of antibiotics. This problem necessitates finding antimicrobial compounds that have new targets or a novel mode of action. Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are an emerging class of natural products with diverse structures and interesting biological activities. Glycocins (glycosylated bacteriocins) are a family of RiPPs, which are currently characterized by the presence of two helices stabilized by two disulfide bonds. Additionally, the side chains of cysteine or serine residues, which are present on a loop connecting the two helices, are modified with at least one sugar moiety. Sublancin is one of the members of the glycocin family with remarkable stability and antimicrobial activity against multidrug resistant Gram-positive pathogens such as methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Previously, the NMR structure of sublancin was elucidated by our laboratory. In my research, we used this structural information to perform structure activity relationship studies on the solvent exposed residues of sublancin, which is described in Chapter 2. Our studies revealed that two residues at the C-terminus of the peptide are important for activity. Additionally sublancin was determined to be ‘glycoactive’, or in other words , the sugar on sublancin was deemed essential for its bioactivity. Previous studies implicated the involvement of the glucose-phosphotransferase system (glucose PTS) in the sensitivity to sublancin. I further investigated the role of the glucose PTS in the bioactivity of sublancin by overexpressing the genes of the PTS operon. The results presented in Chapter 3 indicated that such strains were hypersensitive and showed decreased resistance frequencies suggesting that sublancin leads to a yet unknown deleterious gain of function of the glucose PTS. 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The problem is further amplified by the limited number of antimicrobial targets in bacteria that are affected by the current pool of antibiotics. This problem necessitates finding antimicrobial compounds that have new targets or a novel mode of action. Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are an emerging class of natural products with diverse structures and interesting biological activities. Glycocins (glycosylated bacteriocins) are a family of RiPPs, which are currently characterized by the presence of two helices stabilized by two disulfide bonds. Additionally, the side chains of cysteine or serine residues, which are present on a loop connecting the two helices, are modified with at least one sugar moiety. Sublancin is one of the members of the glycocin family with remarkable stability and antimicrobial activity against multidrug resistant Gram-positive pathogens such as methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Previously, the NMR structure of sublancin was elucidated by our laboratory. In my research, we used this structural information to perform structure activity relationship studies on the solvent exposed residues of sublancin, which is described in Chapter 2. Our studies revealed that two residues at the C-terminus of the peptide are important for activity. Additionally sublancin was determined to be ‘glycoactive’, or in other words , the sugar on sublancin was deemed essential for its bioactivity. Previous studies implicated the involvement of the glucose-phosphotransferase system (glucose PTS) in the sensitivity to sublancin. I further investigated the role of the glucose PTS in the bioactivity of sublancin by overexpressing the genes of the PTS operon. The results presented in Chapter 3 indicated that such strains were hypersensitive and showed decreased resistance frequencies suggesting that sublancin leads to a yet unknown deleterious gain of function of the glucose PTS. 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