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For more than 20 years it is known that β-lactam antibiotics inhibit the transpeptidation of the peptidoglycan [18]. Their primary biochemical targets are some enzymes which are involved in the cross-bridging of the murein peptide sidechains and which are called penicillin binding proteins (PBP’s) [12], for review see Martin et al., [8,13,19].
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Leying, H.J., Karch, H., Kroll, H.P., Opferkuch, W. (1985). The Influence of β-Lactam Antibiotics Including Monobactam on the outer and inner Membrane of E. coli . In: Adam, D., Hahn, H., Opferkuch, W. (eds) The Influence of Antibiotics on the Host-Parasite Relationship II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70748-3_5
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