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Enzybiotics

antibiotic enzymes as drugs and therapeutics
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Year: 2010
Publisher: Hoboken, NJ, Wiley
Media group: Ausleihbestand
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Enzybiotics, by using enzymes to fight bacteria, offer a novel and promising new way to combat infectious diseases. This book presents the state-of-the-art and therapeutic potential of enzybiotics, with a stress on therapeutic applications. The coverage offers a unique combination of medicinal chemistry, microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. It also addresses the timely topic of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, and provides readers with a novel angle to study and combat infectious diseases.
 
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PREFACE.
 
CONTRIBUTORS.
 
1 ENZYBIOTICS AND THEIR POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE (Jan Borysowski and Andrzej Górski).
 
2 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES IN THE USE OF ANTIBIOTICS OR PHAGES AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS (Patricia Veiga-Crespo and Tomas G. Villa).
 
3 ENZYBIOTICS AS SELECTIVE KILLERS OF TARGET BACTERIA (Juan C. Alonso and Marcelo E. Tolmasky).
 
4 PHYLOGENY OF ENZYBIOTICS (Patricia Veiga-Crespo and Tomas G. Villa).
 
5 BACTERIOPHAGE LYSINS: THE ULTIMATE ENZYBIOTIC (Vincent A. Fischetti).
 
6 BACTERIOPHAGE HOLINS AND THEIR MEMBRANEDISRUPTING ACTIVITY (María Gasset).
 
7 ANTI-STAPHYLOCOCCAL LYTIC ENZYMES (Jan Borysowski and Andrzej Górski).
 
8 MEMBRANE-TARGETED ENZYBIOTICS (María Gasset).
 
9 DESIGN OF PHAGE COCKTAILS FOR THERAPY FROM A HOST RANGE POINT OF VIEW (Lawrence D. Goodridge).
 
10 IDENTIFYING PHAGE LYTIC ENZYMES: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (Jonathan E. Schmitz, Raymond Schuch, and Vincent A. Fischetti).
 
11 USE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED PHAGES TO DELIVER SUICIDAL GENES TO TARGET BACTERIA (Lawrence D. Goodridge).
 
CONCLUDING REMARKS: THE FUTURE OF ENZYBIOTICS (Patricia Veiga-Crespo and Tomas G. Villa).
 
INDEX.

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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Tomas G. Villa and Patricia Veiga-Crespo
Year: 2010
Publisher: Hoboken, NJ, Wiley
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Classification: Search for this systematic NA-110, ME-30
Subject type: Search for this subject type Monographien
ISBN: 9780470376553
ISBN (2nd): 0-470-37655-4
Description: X, 284 S. : graph. Darst.
Tags: Antibiotica; Pharmazie; Enzymes; Therapeutic use; LC; Antibacterial agents; Anti-Bacterial agents; Pharmacology; NLM; Bacteriophages; Enzymology; Genetics; Drug resistance; Drug effects
Participating parties: Search for this character Villa, Tomas G. [Hrsg.]; Veiga-Crespo, Patricia [Hrsg.]
Language: englisch||
Footnote: Literaturangaben
Media group: Ausleihbestand