title: Seeing is believing: the impact of structural genomics on antimicrobial drug discovery.
abstract: Over the past decade, the availability of complete microbial genome sequences has led to changes in the strategies that are used to search for novel anti-infectives. However, despite the identification of many new potential drug targets, novel antimicrobial agents have been slow to emerge from these efforts. In part, this reflects the long discovery and development times that are needed to bring new drugs to market and the bottlenecks at the stages of identifying good lead compounds and optimizing these leads into drug candidates. Structural genomics will hopefully provide opportunities to overcome these bottlenecks and populate the antimicrobial pipeline.
authors.affiliation: MBS Associates, 38 Avenue Road, Suite 601, Toronto, Ontario M5R 2G2, Canada. mschmid@rogers.com
authors.forename: Molly B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Schmid
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D001419:Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D035843:Biomedical Research; D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; D015195:Drug Design; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D023281:Genomics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D001426:Bacterial Proteins