Identification of compounds that inhibit late steps of peptidoglycan synthesis in bacteria

Journal of Antibiotics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 288-295

  DeCenzo, Maureen ^a   Kuranda, Mike ^a   Cohen, Seth ^a   Babiak, John ^a   Jiang, Zhi Dong ^a   Sun, Dongyu ^a   Hickey, Mark ^a   Sancheti, Praveen ^a   Bradford, Patricia A ^a   Youngman, Phil ^a   Projan, Steve ^a   Rothstein, David M ^a  

^a Demegen Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AA 2495; AA 2549; AA 7798; AA 896; AC 98; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ASPARTOCIN; AZUREOMYCIN B; BAMBERMYCIN; BETA LACTAMASE; MEMBRANE LIPID; MERSACIDIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYMER; RAMOPLANIN; TUNICAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG PURITY; DRUG SCREENING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GLYCOSYLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036215198     PISSN: 00218820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.55.288     Document Type: Article

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