Synthesis and application of peptidoglycan oligomers as metabolic labeling agents for bacteria

• Main Author: He, Jingxi
• Other Authors: Chan Bee Eng, Mary
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Science::Medicine::Biomedical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137290
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Peptidoglycan is the core component of every bacterial cell wall, which makes it an attractive target for the development of new bacterial targeting agents and broad-spectrum antibiotics. Although many major discoveries have been made on the bacterial cell wall in the past decade, much remains uncer...