Antibiotics targets, mechanisms and resistance

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Other Authors: Gualerzi, Claudio O. 1942-, Brandi, Letizia, Fabbretti, Attilio, Pon, Cynthia L. 1942-
Format: Book
Published: Weinheim Wiley-VCH 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • 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?