Negamycin is a natural pseudodipeptide antibiotic with promising activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, including
Enterobacteriaceae
,
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
, and
Staphylococcus aureus
, and good efficacy in infection models. It binds to ribosomes with a novel binding mode, stimulating miscoding and inhibiting ribosome translocation.