Antibiotic Activity of Escherichia coli against Multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus.

The pks genomic island present in Escherichia coli encodes polyketides (PK) and nonribosomal peptide (NRP) synthases. As discussed in an elegant study published recently ([1][1]), this leads to the synthesis of numerous and still not fully purified and characterized PK-NRP compounds that confer to