Peptide nucleic acids as antibacterial agents via the antisense principle

Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 331-341

  Nielsen, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Antisense; Bacteria; Oligonucleotide; Peptide nucleic acid; PNA

Indexed keywords

2,6 DIAMINOPURINE; ALPHA SARCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; BINDING PROTEIN; BIOTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYCLOSERINE; DNA BASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ETHAMBUTOL; GALANIN RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MEMBRANE LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDASE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHORAMIDIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYMYXIN B; PROTEINASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE INHIBITOR; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG UPTAKE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE THERAPY; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; RAT; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 0035151066     PISSN: 13543784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/13543784.10.2.331     Document Type: Review

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