Transglycosylation step of peptidoglycan biosynthesis

BIOL 260

Suzanne Walker, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Armenise Bldg., Room 630, 200 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115
The biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan is one of a handful of validated broad-spectrum antibacterial targets. This talk will describe recent progress in understanding a key step in the peptidoglycan biosynthetic pathway -- the transglycosylation step, which involves the formation of the glycan chains -- as well as new developments in the discovery of inhibitors.
 

Antibiotics
9:00 AM-11:40 AM, Thursday, August 23, 2007 BCEC -- 109A, Oral

Division of Biological Chemistry

The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007