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1 online resource (xxiv, 549 pages) : illustrations (some color)
A chemist's survey of different antibiotic classes -- Antibacterial discovery: problems and possibilities -- Impact of microbial natural products on antibacterial drug discovery -- Antibiotics and resistance: a fatal attraction -- Fitness costs of antibiotic resistance -- Inhibitors of cell-wall synthesis -- Inhibitors of bacetrial cell partitioning -- The membrane as a novel target site for antibiotics to kill persisting bacterial pathogens -- Bacterial membrane, a key for controlling drug influx and efflux -- Interference with bacterial cell-to-cell chemical signaling in development of new anti-infectives -- Recent developments in inhibitors of bacterial type IIA topoisomerases -- Antibiotics targeting bacterial RNA polymerase -- Inhibitors targeting riboswitches and ribozymes -- Targeting ribonuclease P -- Involvement of ribosome biogenesis in antibiotic functions, acquired resistance, and future opportunities in drug discovery -- Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors -- Antibiotics targeting translation initiation in prokaryotes -- Inhibitors of bacterial elongation factor EF-Tu -- Aminoglycoside antibiotics: structural decoding of inhibitors targeting the ribosomal decoding A site -- Reptidyltransferase inhibitors of the bacterial ribosome -- Antibiotics inhibiting the translocation step of protein elongation on the ribosome -- Antibiotics at the ribosomal exit tunnel -- selected structual aspects -- Targeting HSP70 to fight cancer and bad bugs: one and the same battle?
edited by Claudio O. Gualerzi [and others].
Includes bibliographical references and index.