Antibiotics : targets, mechanisms and resistance / edited by Claudio O. Gualerzi [and others].
Contributor(s): Gualerzi, Claudio O.
Material type: BookPublisher: Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-VCH, ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 549 pages) : illustrations (some color).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783527659685; 3527659684; 1299854656; 9781299854659; 9783527659715; 3527659714; 9783527333059; 3527333053.Subject(s): Antibiotics | Antibiotics -- Physiological effect | Anti-Bacterial Agents | Antibiotics | Antibiotics -- Physiological effectGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Antibiotics.DDC classification: 615.7/922 Online resources: Wiley Online LibraryIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Wiley, viewed November 4, 2013).
A chemist's survey of different antibiotic classes -- Antibacterial discovery: problems and possibilities -- Impact of microbial natural products on antibacterial drug discovery -- Antibiotics and resistance: a fatal attraction -- Fitness costs of antibiotic resistance -- Inhibitors of cell-wall synthesis -- Inhibitors of bacetrial cell partitioning -- The membrane as a novel target site for antibiotics to kill persisting bacterial pathogens -- Bacterial membrane, a key for controlling drug influx and efflux -- Interference with bacterial cell-to-cell chemical signaling in development of new anti-infectives -- Recent developments in inhibitors of bacterial type IIA topoisomerases -- Antibiotics targeting bacterial RNA polymerase -- Inhibitors targeting riboswitches and ribozymes -- Targeting ribonuclease P -- Involvement of ribosome biogenesis in antibiotic functions, acquired resistance, and future opportunities in drug discovery -- Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors -- Antibiotics targeting translation initiation in prokaryotes -- Inhibitors of bacterial elongation factor EF-Tu -- Aminoglycoside antibiotics: structural decoding of inhibitors targeting the ribosomal decoding A site -- Reptidyltransferase inhibitors of the bacterial ribosome -- Antibiotics inhibiting the translocation step of protein elongation on the ribosome -- Antibiotics at the ribosomal exit tunnel -- selected structual aspects -- Targeting HSP70 to fight cancer and bad bugs: one and the same battle?
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