Protein Binding of Beta-Lactam Antibiotics in Critically Ill Patients: Can we successfully 1 predict unbound concentrations? 2 3 Gloria Wong a , Scott Briscoe b , Syamhanin Adnan a , Brett McWhinney b , Jacobus Ungerer b , 4 Jeffrey Lipman a,c , Jason A. Roberts a,c# 5 6 a Burns Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 7 Queensland, Australia 8 b Chemica...

The production, isolation, chemical and physical characteristics and biological properties of the new antiviral antibiotics, xanthocillin X monoand dimethylether, and methoxy-xanthocillin X dimethylether are described. They were produced by two strains of Aspergillus sp. isolated from soil samples. The active principles were extracted from the mycelium, and isolated as yellowish crystals. They ...

The hexaene macrolide antibiotics constitute the smallest group of the polyenes (12 ~ 1 5). Mediocidin, endomycin, hexaene H-85 and hexafungin each have a significant tetraene spectrum in addition to a hexaene spectrum (hexaene spectrum being predominant) and show high activity against fungi and moderate against Gram-positive bacteria. It was not possible to isolate the separate tetraene and he...

Azetidine-2,3-diones (alpha-oxo-beta-lactams) and bromonitromethane undergo coupling in aqueous media in the presence of catalytic amounts of sodium azide. The stereoselectivity of the process was generally good, proceeding with reasonable anti : syn ratios under substrate control. On this basis, a simple and fast protocol for the synthesis of the potentially bioactive 3-substituted 3-hydroxy-b...

Eight new beta-lactam antibiotics and rosaramicin were tested for their activity against penicillin-susceptible and multiply resistant pneumococci. All of the beta-lactam drugs were 50- to 150-fold less active against the drug-resistant pneumococci when compared with their activity against penicillin-susceptible pneumococci. Rosaramicin activity was similar to that of erythromycin.

Gilvocarcin V(1), C27H28O9, m.p. 264 approximately 267 degrees C (dec.), and gilvocarcin M(2), C26H26O9, m.p. 245 approximately 248 degrees C (dec.), are new antitumor antibiotics produced by Streptomyces gilvotanareus. The structure of gilvocarcins has been determined by chemical degradation, nmr and mass spectra. They have a benzonaphtopyran-one system, to which the furanose moiety is linked ...

Eeny, meeny, miny ... enaminones! Lactams and imides have been shown to consistently provide enantioselectivities substantially higher than other substrate classes previously investigated in the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric decarboxylative allylic alkylation. Several new substrates have been designed to probe the contributions of electronic, steric, and stereoelectronic factors that distingui...

The antibacterial interactions of temocillin with other beta-lactams were tested by checkerboard combination in Mueller-Hinton agar against 146 strains of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, 35 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, and 35 Staphylococcus aureus strains. Most combinations showed a moderate degree of synergism. In only one Klebsiella strain was minor antagonism observed between te...

Glycopeptide antibiotics containing a hydrophobic substituent display the best activity against vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and they have been assumed to be poor inducers of the resistance system. Using a panel of 26 glycopeptide derivatives and the model resistance system in Streptomyces coelicolor, we confirmed this hypothesis at the level of transcription. Identification of the structu...

The antharquinone-based chromophore of 11-hydroxyaklavinone is present in the structure of an anticancer agent, daunomycin. On the other hand, aklavinone is the parent aglycone of certain anthracycline antibiotics that possess anti-cancer activity too. The structures of aklavinone and its 11-hydroxy derivative have many -OH groups, and two keto groups which may take place in certain tautomeric ...