The bacterial ribosome as a target for antibiotics

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 870-881

  Poehlsgaard, Jacob ^a   Douthwaite, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC G 418; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; APRAMYCIN; AVILAMYCIN; CAPREOMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; EDEINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HYDROMYCIN B; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MIKAMYCIN B; PACTAMYCIN; PAROMOMYCIN; PUROMYCIN; QUINUPRISTIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; THIOSTREPTON; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VIOMYCIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG BINDING; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BINDING SITES; DRUG RESISTANCE; MACROLIDES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 28144441826     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1265     Document Type: Review

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