A cell-based screening system for detection of inhibitors toward mycobacterial cell wall core

Journal of Antibiotics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 315-318

  Gao, Peng ^a   Guan, Yan ^a   Song, Danqing ^a   Xiao, Chunling ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Cell wall core; Corynebacterium glutamicum; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Mycolic acid; Screening system

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOSERINE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINCOMYCIN; MYCOLIC ACID; SORBITOL; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DIURETICS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOLIC ACIDS; SORBITOL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 68149160029     PISSN: 00218820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ja.2009.34     Document Type: Article

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