Research Catalog
- Title
- Antibiotics : actions, origins, resistance / by Christopher Walsh.
- Author
- Walsh, Christopher.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2003.
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- Description
- x, 335 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-328) and index.
- Contents
- Antibiotics : initial concepts -- Introduction to major antibiotic classes and modes of action -- Antibiotics that act on cell wall biosynthesis -- Antibiotics that block bacterial protein biosynthesis -- Antibiotics that block DNA replication and repair : the Quinolones -- Other targets of antibacterial drugs -- Natural and producer immunity versus acquired resistance -- Enzymatic destruction or modification of the antibiotic by resistant bacteria -- Antibiotic resistance by efflux pumps -- Antibiotic resistance by replacement or modification of the antibiotic target -- Regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis in producer organisms -- Polyketide antibiotic biosynthesis : assembly line enzymology -- Enzymatic assembly lines for nonribosomal peptide antibiotics -- Biosynthesis of other classes of antibiotics -- New looks at targets -- New molecules -- Contexts and challenges for the use of new antibiotics.
- ISBN
- 1555812546
- 9781555812546
- 9781555818937 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2002152389
- OCLC
- ocm50859627
- 50859627
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library