Bacteria, Gram-negative

2-keto-3-deoxy-octanoic acid (KCX)) or 3-deoxy-D-manno octulosonic acid 

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Erythromycin is active against gram-positive and certain gram-negative bacteria, also against Rickettsia and spirochaetes. It is used for patients who are allergic to or do not respond to treatment with penicillins or tetracyclines. 

Tetracyclines are broad-spectrum antibiotics. effective against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, also against Rickettsiae (typhus fever) and certain other organisms. 

Tetracyclines. The tetracycliaes are a small group of antibiotics characterized as containing a polyhydronaphthacene nucleus. Commercially the tetracyclines are very important. They have been used clinically against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, spirochete, mycoplasmas, and rickettsiae... 

Gram-negative organisms produce ced-bound P-lactamases which reside in the periplasmic space. Thus, for gram-negative bacteria, the antibiotic must penetrate the outer ced membrane/wad before coming in contact with a P-lactamase (80,139,140). 

Fosfadecin (186) and fosfocytocin (187) are adenine and cytosine nucleotide antibiotics isolated from the culture filtrates of Pseudomonas viridiflava PK-5 and P. fluorescens PK-52, respectively (283). Hydrolysis produces fosfoxacin which is also isolated from the culture filtrates. Compounds (186) and (187) inhibit gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. 

Activity against gram-positive bacteria = P gram-negative bacteria = N mycobacteria = M fungi = F tumors = T and viruses = V. Only peptides not discussed in the text of this article are given references. 

Upopolysaccharides (14) are cell wall components of gram-negative bacteria. 

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