Article
Medicinal Products: Regulation of Biosynthesis in Space and Time
Registro en:
GOTTLIEB, Otto R.; BORIN, Maria Renata de M. B. Medicinal Products: Regulation of Biosynthesis in Space and Time. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, v. 95, n. 1, p. 115-120, Jan./Feb. 2000.
0074-0276
10.1590/S0074-02762000000100019
1678-8060
Autor
Gottlieb, Otto R.
Borin, Maria Renata de M. B.
Resumen
We live in a “Demon-Haunted World”. Human health care requires the ever increasing resistance of
pathogens to be confronted by a correspondingly fast rate of discovery of novel antibiotics. One of the
possible strategies towards this objective involves the rational localization of bioactive phytochemicals.
The conceptual basis of the method consists in the surprisingly little known gearings of natural products
with morphology, ecology and evolution of their plant source, i. e. an introspection into the general
mechanisms of nature.