Potent and selective inhibitors of Staphylococcus epidermidis tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase
Author(s) -
Yang Wu,
Kunqian Yu,
Bin Xu,
Lili Chen,
XiangLong Chen,
Jialing Mao,
Antoine Danchin,
Xu Shen,
Di Qu,
Hualiang Jiang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkm229
Subject(s) - staphylococcus epidermidis , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , opportunistic pathogen , pathogen , biofilm , staphylococcus aureus , transfer rna , biology , bacteria , biochemistry , rna , pseudomonas aeruginosa , genetics , gene
The skin commensal and opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of the leading causes of nosocomial and biofilm-associated infections, which urgently requires discovery of new antibiotics. We decided to find new leads that target the S. epidermidis tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (SeWRS), which is essential for translation.
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