Antibiotics : actions, origins, resistance

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Main Author: Walsh, Christopher
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Antibiotics : initial concepts
  • Introduction to major antibiotic classes and modes of action
  • Antibiotics that act on cell wall biosynthesis
  • Antibiotics that block bacterial protein biosynthesis
  • Antibiotics that block DNA replication and repair : the Quinolones
  • Other targets of antibacterial drugs
  • Natural and producer immunity versus acquired resistance
  • Enzymatic destruction or modification of the antibiotic by resistant bacteria
  • Antibiotic resistance by efflux pumps
  • Antibiotic resistance by replacement or modification of the antibiotic target
  • Regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis in producer organisms
  • Polyketide antibiotic biosynthesis : assembly line enzymology
  • Enzymatic assembly lines for nonribosomal peptide antibiotics
  • Biosynthesis of other classes of antibiotics
  • New looks at targets
  • New molecules
  • Contexts and challenges for the use of new antibiotics.