Synthetic strategies and medicinal properties of beta-lactams.

Abstract:

:More than five decades since the Discovery of Penicillin, the chemistry and biological activity of b-lactams continue to attract the wide spread attention of research workers. Owing to high efficacy and extremely safe toxicological profile, they are agents of choice in the current therapeutic index for the bacterial infectious diseases. Tremendous efforts have been made into synthesis and structural modification of the beta-lactam nucleus to increase antimicrobial activity and pharmacokinetic performance. These efforts resulted in the development of ampicillin, amoxicillin and a group of cephalosporins as clinically effective therapeutic agents. However the rapid emergence of bacterial strains resistant to most generally used members of this class of compound stimulated research for novel beta-lactams, stable to beta-lactamase and possess high potency, broad spectrum of activity both in vitro and in vivo. The mode of action of beta-lactams is to inhibit an enzyme transpeptidase , penicillin binding proteins, critical in the production of bacterial cell wall.

journal_name

Curr Med Chem

authors

Kidwai M,Sapra P,Bhushan KR

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-03-01 00:00:00

pages

195-215

issue

3

eissn

0929-8673

issn

1875-533X

journal_volume

6

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