Definitions and guidelines for research on antibiotic persistence

NQ Balaban, S Helaine, K Lewis… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Increasing concerns about the rising rates of antibiotic therapy failure and advances in
single-cell analyses have inspired a surge of research into antibiotic persistence. Bacterial …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting antibiotic tolerance, pathogen by pathogen

S Meylan, IW Andrews, JJ Collins - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Antibiotic tolerance, the capacity of genetically susceptible bacteria to survive the lethal
effects of antibiotic treatment, plays a critical and underappreciated role in the disease …

Physiology, Biochemistry, and Applications of F420- and Fo-Dependent Redox Reactions

C Greening, FH Ahmed, AE Mohamed… - Microbiology and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Deazaflavin cofactors enhance the metabolic flexibility of microorganisms by catalyzing a
wide range of challenging enzymatic redox reactions. While structurally similar to riboflavin …

Metabolic-Activity-Based Assessment of Antimicrobial Effects by D2O-Labeled Single-Cell Raman Microspectroscopy

Y Tao, Y Wang, S Huang, P Zhu, WE Huang… - Analytical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
To combat the spread of antibiotic resistance, methods that quantitatively assess the
metabolism-inhibiting effects of drugs in a rapid and culture-independent manner are …

Imaging adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

M Rajendran, E Dane, J Conley… - The Biological …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a universal mediator of metabolism and signaling across
unicellular and multicellular species. There is a fundamental interdependence between the …

[HTML][HTML] Computerized cell tracking: Current methods, tools and challenges

N Emami, Z Sedaei, R Ferdousi - Visual Informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
In developmental biology, knowledge of cell structure and their (morpho) dynamic behavior,
leads to a comprehensive understanding of their conducts and the mechanisms in which …

[HTML][HTML] The extracellular matrix of mycobacterial biofilms: could we shorten the treatment of mycobacterial infections?

P Chakraborty, A Kumar - Microbial cell, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A number of non-tuberculous mycobacterium species are opportunistic pathogens and
ubiquitously form biofilms. These infections are often recalcitrant to treatment and require …

Strongly enhanced bacterial bioluminescence with the ilux operon for single-cell imaging

C Gregor, KC Gwosch, SJ Sahl… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Bioluminescence imaging of single cells is often complicated by the requirement of
exogenous luciferins that can be poorly cell-permeable or produce high background signal …

One step antimicrobial coatings for medical device applications based on low fouling polymers containing selenium nanoparticles

F Li, T Huang, P Pasic, CD Easton, NH Voelcker… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
All indwelling and implantable medical devices are associated with a risk of infection, and
antimicrobial technologies that can provide effective protection against pathogen …

Antibiotic efficacy—context matters

JH Yang, SC Bening, JJ Collins - Current opinion in microbiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Antibiotic lethality involves processes downstream of primary target
inhibition.•Respiration and altered metabolism actively participate in antibiotic lethality.• …