Antibiotics: Methods and Protocols

Part I: Production and Design

1. Antibiotics - Precious Goods in Changing Times

Peter Sass

2. Mining Bacterial Genomes for Secondary Metabolite Gene Clusters

Martina Adamek, Marius Spohn, Evi Stegmann, and Nadine Ziemert

3. Production of Antimicrobial Compounds by Fermentation

Henrik Harms, Gabriele M. König and Till F. Schäberle

4. Structure Elucidation of Antibiotics by NMR Spectroscopy

Georgios Daletos, Elena Ancheeva, Raha Orfali, Victor Wray, and Peter Proksch

5. Computer-Aided Drug Design Methods

Wenbo Yu and Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr.

6. Cytotoxicity Assays as Predictors of the Safety and Efficacy of Antimicrobial Agents

Alexander Zipperer and Dorothee Kretschmer

Part II: Mode of Action

7. Application of a Bacillus subtilis Whole-cell Biosensor (P_liaI-lux) for the Identification of Cell Wall Active Antibacterial Compounds

Carolin Martina Kobras, Thorsten Mascher, and Susanne Gebhard

8. Determination of Bacterial Membrane Impairment by Antimicrobial Agents

Miriam Wilmes and Hans-Georg Sahl

9. Mass-sensitive Biosensor Systems to Determine the Membrane Interaction of Analytes

Sebastian G. Hoß and Gerd Bendas

10. Measurement of Cell Membrane Fluidity by Laurdan GP:Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy

Kathi Scheinpflug, Oxana Krylova  and Henrik Strahl

11. In vitro Assays to Identify Antibiotics Targeting DNA Metabolism

Yu Chen, Xin Liu, Nancy Wu, and Carol A. Fierke

13. Reporter Gene-based Screening for TPP Riboswitch Activators

Christina E. Lünse and Günter Mayer

Federica Briani

15. Bacterial Histidine Kinases: Overexpression, Purification, and Inhibitor Screen

Mike Gajdiss, Michael Türck, and Gabriele Bierbaum

Part III: Response and Susceptibility

16. Expression Profiling of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Obtained by Laboratory Evolution

Florian Bonn, Sandra Maass, and Dörte Becher

18. Label-Free Quantitation of Ribosomal Proteins from Bacillus Subtillis for Antibiotic Research

Sina Schäkermann, Pascal Prochnow, and Julia E. Bandow

19. Functional Metagenomics to Study Antibiotic Resistance

Manish Boolchandani, Sanket Patel, and Gautam Dantas

20. Epidemiological Surveillance and Typing Methods to Track Antibiotic Resistant Strains using High Throughput Sequencing

Miguel Paulo Machado, Bruno Ribeiro-Gonçalves, Mickael Silva, Mário Ramirez, João André Carriço