Antibacterial mechanism of action of arylamide foldamers

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5043-5053

  Mensa, Bruk ^a   Kim, Yong Ho ^a   Choi, Sungwook ^a,c   Scott, Richard ^b   Caputo, Gregory A ^a,d   DeGrado, William F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PolyMedix Inc   (United States)

^c Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^d ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMIDE; ARYLAMIDE FOLDAMER; BETA LACTAMASE; POLYMYXIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL DEATH; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOPLASM; DNA MICROARRAY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETHALITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; STRESS; UPREGULATION;

AMIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 80054703812     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05009-11     Document Type: Article

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