Penicillin is part of a class of antibiotics called β-lactams. These antibiotics are characterized by a beta-lactam ring in ... but have a different method of action to aminoglycosides.

The first broad class contains those mechanisms that decrease the effective concentration of β-lactams at the general site of action, the periplasm or cell wall zone. This class comprises changes ...

Penicillin belongs to the beta-lactam family of antibiotics, the members of which use a similar mechanism of action to inhibit bacterial cell growth that eventually kills the bacteria. Bacteria ...

The mechanism which allows beta-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, to kill MRSA has now been revealed. The mechanism which allows β-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, to kill MRSA ...

More information: S. H. Lee et al. TarO-specific inhibitors of wall teichoic acid biosynthesis restore -lactam efficacy against methicillin-resistant staphylococci, Science Translational Medicine ...

The possible mode of action ... the mechanism of this SYN effect is now in progress. This study has demonstrated that TPPC revitalizes and synergistically potentiates the activity of beta-lactams ...

"With this work we offer a brand new solution to a long-standing challenge and demonstrate the power of what we call mechanism-based ... or six atoms (known as beta-lactam and delta-lactam ...