Antibiotic Methylation: A New Mechanism of Antimicrobial Resistance.

Malone, Kerri M; Gordon, Stephen V

Malone, Kerri M; Gordon, Stephen V.

Afiliação

Malone KM; School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Gordon SV; School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: stephen.gordon@ucd.ie.

Trends Microbiol ; 24(10): 771-772, 2016 10.

Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27593675

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

In new research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, Warrier and colleagues have discovered a novel mode of bacterial drug resistance, namely antibiotic inactivation via N-methylation.

Assuntos

Antituberculosos; Farmacorresistência Bacteriana/efeitos dos fármacos; Metilação; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/efeitos dos fármacos; Tuberculose

Palavras-chave

Mycobacterium tuberculosis; TB; anti-TB drugs; antibiotic methylation; drug resistance; methyltransferase

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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Farmacorresistência Bacteriana / Antituberculosos Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2016 Tipo de documento: Article

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