Sousa Rui
Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
Cell. 2008 Oct 17;135(2):205-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.09.052.
Mechanistic understanding of antibiotic action can yield crucial insights that aid in the design of new antibiotics. In this issue, Mukhopadhyay et al. (2008) uncover the mechanism by which the antibiotic myxopyronin inhibits bacterial RNA polymerase, suggesting a new target region in RNA polymerase for inhibitor design.
对抗生素作用机制的深入理解能够产生关键见解,有助于新型抗生素的设计。在本期中,穆克霍帕德亚等人(2008年)揭示了抗生素黏菌素抑制细菌RNA聚合酶的机制,为抑制剂设计指出了RNA聚合酶中的一个新靶点区域。