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Enzybiotics, A New Class of Enzyme Antimicrobials Targeted against Multidrug-Resistant Superbugs

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  • Asit Kumar Chakraborty

    (Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vidyasagar University, India)

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Gut microbiota with 2X1012 bacterial populations is essential for synthesis of vitamins, coenzymes and many other biomolecules in human and animal. But high dose of antibiotics destructed (since 1928) such bacteria in the alimentary tract posing a threat to extinct of human life. As a result signalling from human and bacteria orchestrated to build a defence to protect symbiotic relations saving both life forms. Bacteria synthesized hundreds of new genes (MDR Genes) to destroy antibiotics in different modes of actions. G-20 leaders and scientists have vowed a strong action plans (as assembled recently in Germany) to abolish the horror of superbugs which are claiming millions of death worldwide. Enzymes as therapeutic antibiotics has taken as emerging new antimicrobials derived from bacteriophages as well as bacteria like Staphylococcus sp., Streptococcus sp. and Histeria monocytogenes. Simply, autolysins, lysozymes, lysins and bacteriocins are great enzybiotics. Genetically modified enzybiotic (GMEnzy) has now a new field of enzyme antibiotic production using molecular biology and genetic engineering principles to overcome the antibiotic resistance. GMEnzy database has built for researchers and is available at http://biotechlab.fudan.edu.cn/database/gmenzy/.

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  • Asit Kumar Chakraborty, 2017. "Enzybiotics, A New Class of Enzyme Antimicrobials Targeted against Multidrug-Resistant Superbugs," Novel Approaches in Drug Designing & Development, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 2(4), pages 71-74, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jnapdd:v:2:y:2017:i:4:p:71-74
    DOI: 10.19080/NAPDD.2017.02.555592
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    1. Asit Kumar Chakraborty, 2017. "Mechanisms of AMR: Mdr Genes and Antibiotics Decoys Retard the New Antibiotic Discovery against Superbugs," Novel Approaches in Drug Designing & Development, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 2(1), pages 1-5, June.
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