Recent advances in bacteriocin application as antimicrobials.
Recent Pat Antiinfect Drug Discov
; 2(2): 115-22, 2007 Jun.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18221167
The dramatic rise in antibiotic-resistant pathogens has renewed efforts to identify, develop, and redesign antibiotics active against the resistant bacteria. This review will focus on the increasing number of patents aimed at employing the potential of antimicrobial polypeptides i.e., the bacteriocins, in vetrinary medicine and human health. Bacteriocins demonstrate enormous possibilities in treating and containing target bacteria and may be a part of novel approaches for replacing classical antibiotics at a time when many pathogens are no longer susceptible to the existing antibiotics. We will review the new knowledge-based approach to the exploitation of these bacterial produced toxins to treat human and animal infectious diseases as well as inhibit the proliferation of eukaryotic cells i.e., treating tumours. The ability to develop novel bacteriocin-based-drugs aimed at potential target cells, prokaryotic as well as eukaryotic, may open new possibilities for the design of improved antibiotics possessing refined characteristics.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Infecciones Bacterianas
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Bacteriocinas
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Antibacterianos
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Recent Pat Antiinfect Drug Discov
Asunto de la revista:
TERAPIA POR MEDICAMENTOS
Año:
2007
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Israel
Pais de publicación:
Países Bajos