Walk, the path towards new antibacterials with low potential for resistance development

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 891-894

  Velikova, Nadya ^a   Bem, Agnieszka E ^b   Van Baarlen, Peter ^b   Wells, Jerry M ^b   Marina, Alberto ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; BENZAMIDE DERIVATIVE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FURAN DERIVATIVE; HISTIDINE KINASE INHIBITOR; IMIDAZOLE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PYRIMIDINONE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZERUMBONE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BIOFILM; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOGENOMICS; PLANKTON; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84885454471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19485875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ml400320s     Document Type: Review

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