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Abstract
The innate toxicity of copper can be exploited as an antimicrobial. In this issue of Chemistry & Biology Festa and colleagues report the use of QBP, a prochelator form of the metal-chelate 8-hydroxyquinolone, which allows for targeted copper-dependent microbial killing at sites of infection.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25126988 DOI： 10.1016/j.chembiol.2014.07.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Biol ISSN： 1074-5521