Obafluorin is a β-lactone antibiotic with the molecular formula C17H14N2O7. Obafluorin is produced by the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens. Obafluorin is a inhibitor of serine hydroxymethyltransferase.

Further reading

  • "Next antibiotic may come from dirt bacteria". Futurity. 2 August 2019.
  • Scott, Thomas A.; Heine, Daniel; Qin, Zhiwei; Wilkinson, Barrie (26 June 2017). . Nature Communications. 8 (1) 15935. doi:. ISSN . PMC . PMID .
  • Herbert, Richard B.; Knaggs, Andrew R. (1992). "Biosynthesis of the antibiotic obafluorin from D-[U-13C]glucose and p-aminophenylalanine in Pseudomonas fluorescens". Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1 (1): 103–107. doi:. ISSN .