Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine : The Antibiotic Makers.
Title:
Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine : The Antibiotic Makers.
Author:
Hopwood, David A.
ISBN:
9780199722280
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Actinomycetes and Antibiotics -- 2 Antibiotic Discovery and Resistance -- 3 Microbial Sex -- 4 Toward Gene Cloning -- 5 From Chromosome Map to DNA Sequence -- 6 Bacteria That Develop -- 7 The Switch to Antibiotic Production -- 8 Unnatural Natural Products -- 9 Functional Genomics -- 10 Genomics Against Tuberculosis and Leprosy -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Abstract:
This book highlights the lives of a group of soil microbes that make most of the antibiotics used in medicine today. Written by an insider, it describes how genetics tells us how these microscopic chemists compete in the soil and how their genes can be rearranged to make new antibiotics to fight re-emerging diseases.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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