Enzybiotics
Subtitle: antibiotic enzymes as drugs and therapeutics
By: [edited by] Tomas G. Villa, Patricia Veiga Crespo.
Contributors: González Villa, Tomás.; Veiga Crespo, Patricia.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470376553
Subjects: Enzymes -- Therapeutic use; Antibacterial agents; Anti-Bacterial Agents -- pharmacology; Anti-Bacterial Agents -- therapeutic use; Bacteriophages -- enzymology; Bacteriophages -- genetics; Drug Resistance -- drug effects
Notes: Includes 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 / T.G. Villa and P. Veiga-Crespo; title: Enzybiotics for use in selectively killing target bacteria / Juan C. Alonso and Marcelo Tolmasky; title: Phylogeny of enzybiotics / T.G. Villa and P. Veiga-Crespo; title: Bacteriophage lytic enzymes : novel anti-infectives to control gram-positive pathogens / Vincent A. Fischetti; title: Bacteriophages holins and their membrane disrupting activity / Maria Gasset; title: Anti-staphylococcal lytic enzymes / Jan Borysowski and Andrzej Górski; title: Membrane-targeted enzybiotics / Maria Gasset; title: Design of phage cocktails for therapy from a host range point of view / Lawrence 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 Goodridge.