The exoskeleton of bacterial cells (the sacculus): Still a highly attractive target for antibacterial agents that will last for a long time

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-35

  Koch, Arthur L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Make before break'; Antibiotics; Autolysins; Bacteria; Energetics; Evolution; Exoskeleton; Lateral transfer; New drugs; Resistance; Sacculus; Wall biophysics

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AUTOLYSIN; DISACCHARIDE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; COVALENT BOND; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG TARGETING; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; VIRUS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034088322     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408410091154165     Document Type: Review

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