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Bacterial Enzymes as Targets for Drug Discovery

Meeting the Challenges of Antibiotic Resistance

  • 1st Edition - November 27, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Punit Kaur, Priyanka Sharma
  • Language: English

Bacterial Enzymes as Targets for Drug Discovery: Meeting the Challenges of Antibiotic Resistance addresses the gap between medical microbiology, structural biology, and genomic sc… Read more

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Description

Bacterial Enzymes as Targets for Drug Discovery: Meeting the Challenges of Antibiotic Resistance addresses the gap between medical microbiology, structural biology, and genomic science in the development of new antibacterial drug development. This book consolidates detailed profiling of bacterial target enzyme families for the drug discovery process and methodologies for use and validation of the potential drug targets. The contents cover the foundations of the antibiotic drug discovery process and focus on bacterial enzymes as drug targets, building across these disciplines to provide a comprehensive resource in bacterial structural biology and genomics. This is the ideal reference for antibiotic drug discovery researchers in the pharma industry and academia. Biochemists, microbiologists, and medicinal chemists will also benefit from this books’ content.

Key features

  • Provides strategies and approaches to drug design aiming at overcoming antibiotic resistance.
  • Includes most common roadblocks in identifying novel drug targets and presents the strategies to overcome.
  • Provides potential methods to identify new drug targets by genome mining.

Readership

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Microbiology researchers​​Medicinal chemists, general chemists​

Table of contents

Part I Primer of antibiotic discovery process

1. Antibacterial drug discovery: A Silent Pandemic

2. Current scenario and future prospective of drug discovery and development against bacterial enzymes

3. Clinical diagnostics of bacterial infections and their resistance to Antibiotics — Current State and Novel Enabling Technologies Implementation Perspectives

4. An Odyssey into Phylogenetic Functional Conservation of Novel Antibacterial Targets in Human Pathogens

5. Validation of drug targets using molecular methodologies and enzymatic activity assays for validation of inhibitory potential

6. Computational tools to identify potential drug targets in bacteria

7. Antimicrobial drug resistance and bypassing strategies
Part II Bacterial enzyme as drug targets

8. Designing Tomorrow's Antibiotics: Cutting-Edge Strategies and Technologies

9. Inhibiting the replication by targeting topoisomerases

10. Role of beta lactamases in antibiotic drug discovery

11. Selective vs broad spectrum inhibition of novel outer membrane targets in Gram negatives

12. Ribosomal binding antibacterial agents

13. RNA polymerase: A key target for Novel Antimicrobial Therapeutic Strategies

14. Colistin resistance and strategies against superbug, where we are?

15. Deoxythymidine pathway enzymes as an antibacterial target

16. Arresting the peptidoglycan synthesis to kill the bacteria

17. Clp protease complex as a therapeutic target for tuberculosis

18. PlaF: a bacterial Lands cycle phospholipase A mediating membrane phospholipid degradation and virulence adaptation

19. Bacterial TIR domain-containing proteins as drug targets

20. Drug Repurposing: Tackling the antibiotic resistance with existing therapeutics

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 27, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Punit Kaur

Dr. Kaur’s specialties include Bioinformatics, Structural Biology, X-ray Crystallography, and Rational Structure-Based Drug Design. Her research focuses on clinically relevant bacterial pathogens where a multidisciplinary approach is adopted to understand the antibacterial resistance mechanisms and design of novel inhibitory molecules. She has published more than 240 original publications, reviews and chapters in the field of bioinformatics, biophysical enzymatic activity and structural biology.
Affiliations and expertise
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India

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Priyanka Sharma

Dr. Priyanka Sharma is a postdoctoral student with the biomedical Informatics department at the ICMR. Her work focuses on the field of computational biology involving structural bioinformatics and genomics of bacterial pathogens. She has published widely in the field of clinical bacteriology and is the author of over 30 research papers, reviews and chapters. She has work experience in field of antimicrobial resistance due to enzymatic mutations.
Affiliations and expertise
India Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, Delhi, India

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