Enzybiotics
Subtitle: antibiotic enzymes as drugs and therapeutics
By: edited by Tomas G. Villa and Patricia Veiga-Crespo
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780470376553
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enzybiotics and their potential applications in medicine / Jan Borysowski and Andrzej Górski; title: Advantages and disadvantages in the use of antibiotics or phages as therapeutical agents / Patricia Veiga-Crespo and Tomas G. Villa; title: Enzybiotics as selective killers of target bacteria / Juan C. Alonso and Marcelo E. Tolmasky; title: Phylogeny of enzybiotics / Patricia Veiga-Crespo and Tomas G. Villa; title: Bacteriophage lysins : the ultimate enzybiotic / Vincent A. Fischetti; title: Bacteriophages holins and their membrane-disrupting activity / María Gasset; title: Anti-staphylococcal lytic enzymes / Jan Borysowski and Andrzej Górski; title: Membrane-targeted enzybiotics / María Gasset; title: Design of phage cocktails for therapy from a host range point of view / Lawrence D. Goodridge; title: Identifying phage lytic enzymes : past, present, and future / Jonathan E. Schmitz, Raymond Schuch, and Vincent A. Fischetti; title: Use of genetically modified phages to deliver suicidal genes to target bacteria / Lawrence D. Goodridge.