High-Throughput Screen for Inhibitors of Transglycosylase and/or Transpeptidase Activities of Escherichia coli Penicillin Binding Protein 1b

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 30-40

  Chandrakala, B ^a   Shandil, Radha K ^a   Mehra, Upasana ^a,b   Ravishankar, Sudha ^a   Kaur, Parvinder ^a   Usha, Veeraraghavan ^a,c   Joe, Bina ^a,d   DeSousa, Sunita M ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b PLEXXIKON INC   (United States)

^c Medical College of Ohio ^*  (India)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; BAMBERMYCIN; BINDING PROTEIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; NISIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 1B; TUNICAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CELL SCREENING; COATED PARTICLE; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IC 50; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEINASE INHIBITION; SCINTILLATION PROBE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DETERGENTS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; RISTOCETIN; TRANSFERASES; VANCOMYCIN; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

EID: 0346101458     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.1.30-40.2004     Document Type: Article

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