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CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 6, Pages 393-433Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/10409230903307311
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Antibiotics; inhibitors; protein synthesis; resistance; ribosome; translation
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [WI3285/1-1]
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Protein synthesis is one of the major targets in the cell for antibiotics. This review endeavors to provide a comprehensive post-ribosome structure A-Z of the huge diversity of antibiotics that target the bacterial translation apparatus, with an emphasis on correlating the vast wealth of biochemical data with more recently available ribosome structures, in order to understand function. The binding site, mechanism of action, and modes of resistance for 26 different classes of protein synthesis inhibitors are presented, ranging from ABT-773 to Zyvox. In addition to improving our understanding of the process of translation, insight into the mechanism of action of antibiotics is essential to the development of novel and more effective antimicrobial agents to combat emerging bacterial resistance to many clinically-relevant drugs.
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