[HTML][HTML] Host-directed therapies for bacterial and viral infections

SHE Kaufmann, A Dorhoi, RS Hotchkiss… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite the recent increase in the development of antivirals and antibiotics, antimicrobial
resistance and the lack of broad-spectrum virus-targeting drugs are still important issues and …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting CCR5 as a component of an HIV-1 therapeutic strategy

H Mohamed, T Gurrola, R Berman, M Collins… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Globally, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is a major health burden for
which successful therapeutic options are still being investigated. Challenges facing current …

[HTML][HTML] Actionable druggable genome-wide Mendelian randomization identifies repurposing opportunities for COVID-19

L Gaziano, C Giambartolomei, AC Pereira, A Gaulton… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Drug repurposing provides a rapid approach to meet the urgent need for therapeutics to
address COVID-19. To identify therapeutic targets relevant to COVID-19, we conducted …

Scalable biomimetic sensing system with membrane receptor dual-monolayer probe and graphene transistor arrays

R Qing, M Xue, J Zhao, L Wu, A Breitwieser… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Affinity-based biosensing can enable point-of-care diagnostics and continuous health
monitoring, which commonly follows bottom-up approaches and is inherently constrained by …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide Mendelian randomization identifies actionable novel drug targets for psychiatric disorders

J Liu, Y Cheng, M Li, Z Zhang, T Li… - …, 2023 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders impose tremendous economic burden on society and are leading
causes of disability worldwide. However, only limited drugs are available for psychiatric …

Targeted homology-directed repair in blood stem and progenitor cells with CRISPR nanoformulations

R Shahbazi, G Sghia-Hughes, JL Reid, S Kubek… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Ex vivo CRISPR gene editing in haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells has opened
potential treatment modalities for numerous diseases. The current process uses …

[HTML][HTML] CCR5 as a coreceptor for human immunodeficiency virus and simian immunodeficiency viruses: a prototypic love-hate affair

AJ Jasinska, I Pandrea, C Apetrei - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
CCR5, a chemokine receptor central for orchestrating lymphocyte/cell migration to the sites
of inflammation and to the immunosurveillance, is involved in the pathogenesis of a wide …

[HTML][HTML] Design methods for antimicrobial peptides with improved performance

J Mwangi, PM Kamau, RC Thuku, R Lai - Zoological Research, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The recalcitrance of pathogens to traditional antibiotics has made treating and eradicating
bacterial infections more difficult. In this regard, developing new antimicrobial agents to …

[HTML][HTML] Why the HIV reservoir never runs dry: clonal expansion and the characteristics of HIV-infected cells challenge strategies to cure and control HIV infection

CY Lau, MA Adan, F Maldarelli - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) effectively reduces cycles of viral replication but does not target
proviral populations in cells that persist for prolonged periods and that can undergo clonal …

Host-targeted interventions as an exciting opportunity to combat malaria

K Vijayan, L Wei, EKK Glennon, C Mattocks… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Terminal and benign diseases alike in adults, children, pregnant women, and others are
successfully treated by pharmacological inhibitors that target human enzymes. Despite …