Drug target for the treatment of MRSA (a superbug) infections

• 来源期刊: 中国科学基金（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2016,（2）
• 页码范围: 20
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Science and Technology Major Project,the research team led by Prof.Lan Lefu at the State Key Laboratory of Drug Research,Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica,Chinese Academy of Sciences,and Prof.Li Jian (李剑) at the Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design,School of Pharmacy,East China University of Science and Technology,reported recently on inhibiting Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus) virulence of naftifine and its new derivatives by targeting a diapophytoene desaturase (CrtN),which was published in Nat Chem Biol (2016,12:174-179).