Structural conservation of antibiotic interaction with ribosomes

H Paternoga, C Crowe-McAuliffe, LV Bock… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The ribosome is a major target for clinically used antibiotics, but multidrug resistant
pathogenic bacteria are making our current arsenal of antimicrobials obsolete. Here we …

Genome-encoded ABCF factors implicated in intrinsic antibiotic resistance in Gram-positive bacteria: VmlR2, Ard1 and CplR

N Obana, H Takada, C Crowe-McAuliffe… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Genome-encoded antibiotic resistance (ARE) ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins of the F
subfamily (ARE-ABCFs) mediate intrinsic resistance in diverse Gram-positive bacteria. The …

Mechanistic insights into the alternative ribosome recycling by HflXr

SM Seely, RS Basu, MG Gagnon - Nucleic Acids Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
During stress conditions such as heat shock and antibiotic exposure, ribosomes stall on
messenger RNAs, leading to inhibition of protein synthesis. To remobilize ribosomes …

Lincosamide Antibiotics: Structure, Activity, and Biosynthesis

T Mori, I Abe - ChemBioChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lincosamides are naturally occurring antibiotics isolated from Streptomyces sp. Currently,
lincomycin A and its semisynthetic analogue clindamycin are used as clinical drugs. Due to …

Cryo-EM Structure of the 50S-HflX Complex Reveals a Novel Mechanism of Antibiotic Resistance in E. coli

D Wu, Y Dai, N Gao - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Bacterial HflX is a conserved ribosome-binding GTPase involved in splitting ribosomal
complexes accumulated under stress condition. However, the atomic details of its ribosomal …

Insights into the function of the chloroplastic ribosome‐associated GTPase high frequency of lysogenization X in Arabidopsis thaliana

M Mehrez, C Lecampion, H Ke, F Gorsane… - Plant Direct, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ribosome‐associated GTPases are conserved enzymes that participate in ribosome
biogenesis and ribosome function. In bacteria, recent studies have identified HflX as a …

Finding priority bacterial ribosomes for future structural and antimicrobial research based upon global RNA and protein sequence analysis

HB Cooper, KL Krause, PP Gardner - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Ribosome-targeting antibiotics comprise over half of antibiotics used in medicine, but our
fundamental knowledge of their binding sites is derived primarily from ribosome structures of …

Drug resistance through ribosome splitting and rRNA disordering in mycobacteria

S Majumdar, A Kashyap, RK Koripella, MR Sharma… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
HflX is known to rescue stalled ribosomes and is implicated in antibiotic resistance in
several bacteria. Here we present several high-resolution cryo-EM structures of …

Visualizing how antibiotics interact with ribosomes

H Paternoga, DN Wilson - BIOspektrum, 2024 - Springer
Zusammenfassung Die Zunahme multiresistenter Bakterien macht die Entwicklung neuer
verbesserter Antibiotika erforderlich. Das Ribosom ist hierfür als ein Ziel einer breiten …

Insights into the function of the chloroplastic ribosome-associated GTPase HflX in Arabidopsis thaliana

M Mehrez, C Lecampion, H Ke, F Gorsane, B Field - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Ribosome-associated GTPases are conserved enzymes that participate in ribosome
biogenesis and ribosome function. In bacteria, recent studies have identified HflX as a …