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Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of metronidazole-thiazole derivatives as antibacterial inhibitors

Ya-Juan Qin1, Peng-Fei Wang1, Jigar A Makawana1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Science Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China.

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|October 17, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
Antibacterial activitiesCytotoxicityFabH inhibitorsMetronidazole–thiazole derivativesMolecule docking

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