Systems-level chemical biology to accelerate antibiotic drug discovery

MA Farha, S French, ED Brown - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Drug-resistant bacterial infections pose an imminent and growing threat to
public health. The discovery and development of new antibiotics of novel chemical class and …

Natural and engineered precision antibiotics in the context of resistance

CW Johnston, AH Badran - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibiotics are essential weapons in our fight against infectious disease, yet the
consequences of broad-spectrum antibiotic use on microbiome stability and pathogen …

A robust platform for chemical genomics in bacterial systems

S French, C Mangat, A Bharat, JP Côté… - Molecular biology of …, 2016 - Am Soc Cell Biol
While genetic perturbation has been the conventional route to probing bacterial systems,
small molecules are showing great promise as probes for cellular complexity. Indeed …

High-throughput approaches to understanding gene function and mapping network architecture in bacteria

AR Brochado, A Typas - Current opinion in microbiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Advances in sequencing technology have provided an unprecedented view of bacterial
diversity, along with a daunting number of novel genes. Within this new reality lies the …

Systems-level antimicrobial drug and drug synergy discovery

T Roemer, C Boone - Nature chemical biology, 2013 - nature.com
Here, we review the'target-centric'genomic strategy to antimicrobial discovery and share our
perspective on identification, validation and prioritization of potential antimicrobial drug …

[HTML][HTML] How antibacterials really work: impact on drug discovery

T Dick, D Young - Future Microbiology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Future Microbiol.(2011) 6 (6) 604 future science group use of systems biology to kill. Real
antibacterials work within the cellular context by corrupting metabolic and information …

Solving the antibiotic crisis

GD Wright - ACS Infectious Diseases, 2015 - ACS Publications
Antibiotics are essential for both treating and preventing infectious diseases. Paradoxically,
despite their importance as pillars of modern medicine, we are in danger of losing antibiotics …

Transcriptomics as a tool to discover new antibacterial targets

Á Domínguez, E Muñoz, MC López, M Cordero… - Biotechnology …, 2017 - Springer
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, multiple drug-resistance, and extremely
drug-resistant strains demonstrates the need for improved strategies to discover new drug …

Prospects for antibacterial discovery and development

TM Privalsky, AM Soohoo, J Wang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The rising prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacteria is an urgent health crisis that can only
be countered through renewed investment in the discovery and development of antibiotics …

[HTML][HTML] The complexities of antibiotic action

REW Hancock - Molecular systems biology, 2007 - embopress.org
Antibiotics are arguably the most successful medicine on the planet, but the one under huge
threat from antibiotic resistance in the face of diminishing new antimicrobial discovery efforts …