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Mechanism of Action of Antieukaryotic and Antiviral Compounds (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
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Mechanism of Action of Antieukaryotic and Antiviral Compounds (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
Series: Gottlieb,D.(Eds):Antibiotics Vol 5, 5 / 2
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When Antibiotics I was published in 1967, the teleological view was
held by some that" antibiotics" were substances elaborated by
certain microorgan isms for the purpose of competing with other
microorganisms for survival in mixed ecological environments.
However, not only had J. EHRLICH and his associates shown 15 years
earlier that chloramphenicol was produced by Strepto myces
venezuelae in cultures of sterilized soils but not in parallel
cultures of the same soils which were not sterilized, but
operationally, the search for anti cancer antibiotics was actively
under way (Antibiotics I reporting on numerous such substances),
although the concept of antibiosis could not logically justify such
undertakings. This editor hesitates to accept the use of the term
"antibiotic" for anti microbial agents of non microbiological
origins which is sometimes encountered, but neither does he
subscribe to the view that antibiotics are in some fundamental
manner different from chemotherapeutic substances of other origins.
Modes and mechanisms of action of chemotherapeutic compounds are
not systematic functions of their origins nor of the taxonomical
position of the target organisms. Consequently, in the selection of
topics for Antibiotics III (published in 1975), synthetic drugs and
natural products of higher plants (alkaloids) were represented,
along with antibiotics in the strict sense of the definition. We
now present Antibiotics V, for whose assembly the same selection
criteria were applied as for Antibiotics Ill. The aggregate length
of the contributions rendered it impractical to place the entire
text between the covers of one book."
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