Structural and Mechanistic Basis of Penicillin-Binding Protein Inhibition by Lactivicins
Macheboeuf, P., Fisher, D.S., Brown, T.J., Zervosen, A., Luxen, A., Joris, B., Dessen, A., Schofield, C.J.(2007) Nat Chem Biol 3: 565
- PubMed: 17676039 
- DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2007.21
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2JCH, 2JE5 - PubMed Abstract: 
Beta-lactam antibiotics, including penicillins and cephalosporins, inhibit penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs), which are essential for bacterial cell wall biogenesis. Pathogenic bacteria have evolved efficient antibiotic resistance mechanisms that, in Gram-positive bacteria, include mutations to PBPs that enable them to avoid beta-lactam inhibition ...