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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1970-7-23
pubmed:abstractText
A determination of the relative affinity of vancomycin and ristocetin for isolated cell walls and for a peptidoglycan precursor was made. These antibiotics had previously been shown to adsorb to cell walls and to complex with peptides containing a d-alanyl-d-alanine C-terminus. By using (14)C-uridine diphosphate (UDP)-N-acetylmuramyl pentapeptide, it was shown that the complex which is formed between this peptidoglycan precursor and either vancomycin or ristocetin does not preclude adsorption of the antibiotics to cell walls of Micrococcus lysodeikticus. Complex formation between ristocetin and UDP-N-acetylmuramyl pentapeptide was assured by differential absorption spectra. However, when the complex was mixed with cell walls, the antibiotic was sedimented with the walls, and the radioactivity remained in the supernatant solution. This indication that ristocetin and vancomycin have a greater affinity for walls than for UDP-N-acetylmuramyl pentapeptide and that the complex per se does not bind to cell walls suggests that adsorption of these antibiotics to cell walls is probably responsible for the inhibition of peptidoglycan synthesis. This proposal is strengthened by the observation that complexed antibiotic is no less inhibitory for growth of Bacillus subtilis than free vancomycin or ristocetin.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0021-9193
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
102
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
476-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1970
pubmed:articleTitle
Relative affinity of vancomycin and ristocetin for cell walls and uridine diphosphate-N-acetylmuramyl pentapeptide.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article