Exploitation of bacterial transcription initiation as a target for new antimicrobials

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1008014

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Antibiotic resistant infections from 'superbugs' are a major health problem. We will exploit information we have gathered on the machinery that copies genetic information into a message to discover chemical compounds that can be used for the development of new antibiotics with a novel mechanism of action.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $540,356.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Bacteriology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

antibiotic resistance | drug design | infection control | protein-protein interaction | structure-based drug design | transcription

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