Emerging peptide antibiotics with therapeutic potential

This review covers some of the recent progress in the field of peptide antibiotics with a focus on compounds with novel or established mode of action and with demonstrated efficacy in animal infection models. Novel drug discovery approaches, linear and macrocyclic peptide antibiotics, lipopeptides l...

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Main Authors: Gregory Upert, Anatol Luther, Daniel Obrecht, Philipp Ermert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:Medicine in Drug Discovery
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590098620300658
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Summary:This review covers some of the recent progress in the field of peptide antibiotics with a focus on compounds with novel or established mode of action and with demonstrated efficacy in animal infection models. Novel drug discovery approaches, linear and macrocyclic peptide antibiotics, lipopeptides like the polymyxins as well as peptides addressing targets located in the plasma membrane or in the outer membrane of bacterial cells are discussed.
ISSN:2590-0986