"Published In: United States, 22 November 2016 " --Distributor's website

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Antibiotics : precious goods in changing times / Peter Sass -- Mining bacterial genomes for secondary metabolite gene clusters / Martina Adamek, Marius Spohn, Evi Stegmann, and Nadine Ziemert -- Production of antimicrobial compounds by fermentation / Henrik Harms, Gabriele M. König, and Till F. Schäberle -- Structure elucidation of antibiotics by NMR spectroscopy / Georgios Daletos, Elena Ancheeva, Raha S. Orfali, Victor Wray, and Peter Proksch -- Computer-aided drug design methods / Wenbo Yu and Alexander D. MacKerell Jr. -- Cytotoxicity assays as predictors of the safety and efficacy of antimicrobial agents / Alexander Zipperer and Dorothee Kretschmer -- Application of a Bacillus subtilis whole-cell biosensor (PliaI-lux) for the identification of cell wall active antibacterial compounds / Carolin Martina Kobras, Thorsten Mascher, and Susanne Gebhard -- Determination of bacterial membrane impairment by antimicrobial agents / Miriam Wilmes and Hans-Georg Sahl -- Mass-sensitive biosensor systems to determine the membrane interaction of analytes / Sebastian G. Hoss and Gerd Bendas -- Measurement of cell membrane fluidity by Laurdan GP : fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy / Kathi Scheinpflug, Oxana Krylova, and Henrik Strahl -- In vitro assays to identify antibiotics targeting DNA metabolism / Allan H. Pang, Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, and Oleg V. Tsodikov -- Fluorescence-based real-time activity assays to identify RNase P inhibitors / Yu Chen, Xin Liu, Nancy Wu, and Carol A. Fierke -- Reporter gene-based screening for TPP riboswitch activators / Christina E. Lünse and Günter Mayer -- Cell-based fluorescent screen to identify inhibitors of bacterial translation initiation / Federica Briani -- Bacterial histidine kinases : overexpression, purification, and inhibitor screen / Mike Gajdiss, Michael Türck, and Gabriele Bierbaum -- Expression profiling of antibiotic-resistant bacteria obtained by laboratory evolution / Shingo Suzuki, Takaaki Horinouchi, and Chikara Furusawa -- Sample preparation for mass-spectrometry based absolute protein quantification in antibiotic stress research / Florian Bonn, Sandra Maass, and Dörte Becher -- Label-free quantitation of ribosomal proteins from Bacillus subtilis for antibiotic research / Sina Schäkermann, Pascal Prochnow, and Julia E. Bandow -- Functional metagenomics to study antibiotic resistance / Manish Boolchandani, Sanket Patel, and Gautam Dantas -- Epidemiological surveillance and typing methods to track antibiotic resistant strains using high throughput sequencing / Miguel Paulo Machado, Bruno Ribeiro-Gonçalves, Mickael Silva, Mário Ramirez, and João André Carriço.