Antibacterials : Volume II

Annotation Medicinal chemistry is both science and art. The science of medicinal chemistry offers mankind one of its best hopes for improving the quality of life. The art of medicinal chemistry continues to challenge its practitioners with the need for both intuition and experience to discover new drugs. Hence sharing the experience of drug research is uniquely beneficial to the field of medicinal chemistry. Drug research requires interdisciplinary team-work at the interface between chemistry, biology and medicine. Therefore, the topic-related series Topics in Medicinal Chemistry covers all relevant aspects of drug research, e.g. pathobiochemistry of diseases, identification and validation of (emerging) drug targets, structural biology, drugability of targets, drug design approaches, chemogenomics, synthetic chemistry including combinatorial methods, bioorganic chemistry, natural compounds, high-throughput screening, pharmacological in vitro and in vivo investigations, drug-receptor interactions on the molecular level, structure-activity relationships, drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, toxicology and pharmacogenomics. In general, special volumes are edited by well known guest editors Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Nucleoside Natural Product Antibiotics Targetting Microbial Cell Wall Biosynthesis (Timothy D. H. Bugg)....Pages 1-25 The Cyclic Lipopeptide Antibiotics (Laurens H. J. Kleijn, Nathaniel I. Martin)....Pages 27-53 Fully Synthetic Tetracyclines: Increasing Chemical Diversity to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections (Cuixiang Sun, Xiao-Yi Xiao)....Pages 55-95 The Oxazolidinones (Michael R. Barbachyn)....Pages 97-121 The Antifolates (Eric Scocchera, Dennis L. Wright)....Pages 123-149 Sideromycins as Pathogen-Targeted Antibiotics (Timothy A. Wencewicz, Marvin J. Miller)....Pages 151-183 Quorum Sensing Inhibitors as Pathoblockers for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections: A New Concept in Anti-Infective Drug Discovery (Ahmed A. M. Kamal, Christine K. Maurer, Giuseppe Allegretta, Jörg Haupenthal, Martin Empting, Rolf W. Hartmann)....Pages 185-210 Back Matter ....Pages 211-215