The microbial metabolism of penicillin V sulphoxide and its possible relevance to the mode of action of penicillin
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 24,p. 1176-1177
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39790001176
Abstract
Extracellular enzymes of bacteria and streptomycetes rapidly convert two molecules of penicillin V sulphoxide into one molecule of an unstable metabolite, probably (5); the implications of this finding for the mode of action of penicillin are discussed.Keywords
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