Non-iron metalloporphyrins: Potent antibacterial compounds that exploit haem/Hb uptake systems of pathogenic bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 429-442

  Stojiljkovic, Igor ^a   Kumar, Veena ^a   Srinivasan, Nithya ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; HEME; METALLOPORPHYRIN; OXYGEN RADICAL; PROTOPORPHYRIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; FIBROBLAST; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CACO-2 CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CYTOCHROMES; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GALLIUM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IONS; IRON; METALLOPORPHYRINS; METALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROTOPORPHYRINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VERO CELLS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0032937984     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01175.x     Document Type: Article

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