Repurposing bioactive aporphine alkaloids as efflux pump inhibitors

FG Avci, B Atas, CS Aksoy, E Kurpejovic, GG Toplan… - Fitoterapia, 2019 - Elsevier
Extrusion of drugs or drug-like compounds through bacterial efflux pumps is a serious health
issue that leads to loss in drug efficacy. Combinatorial therapies of low-efficacy drugs with …

Carvacrol Enhances the Antimicrobial Potency of Berberine in Bacillus subtilis

B Atas, CS Aksoy, FG Avci, NA Sayar, K Ulgen… - Current …, 2022 - Springer
The essential oil carvacrol from oregano displays a wide range of biological activities among
which is found the inhibition of efflux pumps. Thus, using carvacrol, the current work …

Phytochemicals increase the antibacterial activity of antibiotics by acting on a drug efflux pump

T Ohene‐Agyei, R Mowla, T Rahman… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Drug efflux pumps confer resistance upon bacteria to a wide range of antibiotics from
various classes. The expression of efflux pumps are also implicated in virulence and biofilm …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibiting bacterial drug efflux pumps via phyto-therapeutics to combat threatening antimicrobial resistance

V Shriram, T Khare, R Bhagwat, R Shukla… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotics, once considered the lifeline for treating bacterial infections, are under threat due
to the emergence of threatening antimicrobial resistance (AMR). These drug-resistant …

N-caffeoylphenalkylamide derivatives as bacterial efflux pump inhibitors

S Michalet, G Cartier, B David, AM Mariotte… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2007 - Elsevier
As part of an ongoing project to identify plant natural products as efflux pump inhibitors
(EPIs), bioassay-guided fractionation of the methanolic extract of Mirabilis jalapa …

Role of Berberine as a Potential Efflux Pump Inhibitor against MdfA from Escherichia coli: In Vitro and In Silico Studies

Y Li, X Ge - Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Infections by Gram-negative pathogens are usually difficult to manage due to the drug export
by efflux pumps. With the evolution and horizontal transfer of efflux pumps, there is an urgent …

Evaluation of a series of 2-napthamide derivatives as inhibitors of the drug efflux pump AcrB for the reversal of antimicrobial resistance

Y Wang, R Mowla, L Guo, AD Ogunniyi… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2017 - Elsevier
Drug efflux pumps confer multidrug resistance to dangerous pathogens which makes these
pumps important drug targets. We have synthesised a novel series of compounds based on …

Terpenes as bacterial efflux pump inhibitors: A systematic review

KJSDO Dias, GM Miranda, JR Bessa… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Managing antibiotic resistance is a significant challenge in modern pharmacotherapy. While
molecular analyses have identified efflux pump expression as an essential mechanism …

Discovery of multidrug efflux pump inhibitors with a novel chemical scaffold

AT Green, M Moniruzzaman, CJ Cooper… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multidrug efflux is a major contributor to antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacterial
pathogens. Inhibition of multidrug efflux pumps is a promising approach for reviving the …

Chlorpromazine and amitriptyline are substrates and inhibitors of the AcrB multidrug efflux pump

EM Grimsey, C Fais, RL Marshall, V Ricci, ML Ciusa… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Efflux is an important mechanism in Gram-negative bacteria conferring multidrug resistance.
Inhibition of efflux is an encouraging strategy to restore the antibacterial activity of antibiotics …