Natural Alkaloid Berberine Activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa MexXY-Mediated Aminoglycoside Resistance: In Silico and in Vitro Studies

E Laudadio, N Cedraro, G Mangiaterra… - Journal of natural …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The multidrug efflux system MexXY-OprM, inside the resistance-nodulation-division family, is
a major determinant of aminoglycoside resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In the fight …

Molecular mechanism of MBX2319 inhibition of Escherichia coli AcrB multidrug efflux pump and comparison with other inhibitors

AV Vargiu, P Ruggerone, TJ Opperman… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Efflux pumps of the resistance nodulation division (RND) superfamily, such as AcrB, make a
major contribution to multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria. The development of …

New multidrug efflux inhibitors for gram-negative bacteria

RL Marshall, GS Lloyd, AJ Lawler, SJ Element, J Kaur… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Active efflux of antibiotics preventing their accumulation to toxic intracellular concentrations
contributes to clinically relevant multidrug resistance. Inhibition of active efflux potentiates …

Molecular Properties That Define the Activities of Antibiotics in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

CJ Cooper, G Krishnamoorthy… - ACS infectious …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The permeability barrier of Gram-negative cell envelopes is the major obstacle in the
discovery and development of new antibiotics. In Gram-negative bacteria, these difficulties …

The challenge of intracellular antibiotic accumulation, a function of fluoroquinolone influx versus bacterial efflux

J Vergalli, A Atzori, J Pajovic, E Dumont… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
With the spreading of antibiotic resistance, the translocation of antibiotics through bacterial
envelopes is crucial for their antibacterial activity. In Gram-negative bacteria, the interplay …

Efflux pumps as interventions to control infection caused by drug-resistance bacteria

N Farhat, A Ali, RA Bonomo, AU Khan - Drug Discovery Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Bacterial multidrug resistance (MDR) has become a major public health threat. Along with
enzymatic modifications, overexpression of MDR efflux pumps is a significant antibiotic …

smFRET probing reveals substrate-dependent conformational dynamics of E. coli multidrug MdfA

Y Zhu, L He, Y Liu, Y Zhao, XC Zhang - Biophysical journal, 2019 - cell.com
Bacterial multidrug-resistance transporters of the major facilitator superfamily are
distinguished by their extraordinary ability to bind structurally diverse substrates, thus …

A molecular modeling approach to identify novel inhibitors of the major facilitator superfamily of efflux pump transporters

SG Zárate, P Morales, K Świderek, VM Bolanos-Garcia… - Antibiotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Multidrug efflux systems play a prominent role in medicine, as they are important
contributors to bacterial antibiotic resistance. NorA is an efflux pump transporter from the …

Multidrug efflux pumps and their inhibitors characterized by computational modeling

VK Ramaswamy, P Cacciotto, G Malloci… - … resistance in bacteria …, 2016 - Springer
Antimicrobial resistance is a key public health concern of our era due to an ever-increasing
number of drug-resistant pathogens, including several Gram-negative bacilli. The latter are …

Virtual screening and biological activity evaluation of novel efflux pump inhibitors targeting AdeB

Y Tuo, Y Tang, R Yang, XM Zhao, M Luo, X Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The AdeABC efflux pump is an important mechanism causing multidrug resistance in
Acinetobacter baumannii, and its main component AdeB can recognize carbapenems …