Antibiotic activities and affinities for bacterial cell wall analogue of N-demethylvancomycin and its derivatives

Article abstract of DOI:10.7164/antibiotics.51.750

N-Demethylvancomycin, which has been clinically used in China, is one member of vancomycin group (glycopeptide) antibiotics. It differs from vancomycin only in that methyl group on the amino group of the N-terminal residue of vancomycin has been replaced