Fighting antibiotic resistance—strategies and (pre) clinical developments to find new antibacterials

S Walesch, J Birkelbach, G Jézéquel, FPJ Haeckl… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Antibacterial resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health. The development of
new therapeutics against bacterial pathogens has slowed drastically since the approvals of …

Targeting the holy triangle of quorum sensing, biofilm formation, and antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria

RV Sionov, D Steinberg - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chronic and recurrent bacterial infections are frequently associated with the formation of
biofilms on biotic or abiotic materials that are composed of mono-or multi-species cultures of …

From plants to antimicrobials: Natural products against bacterial membranes

F Nourbakhsh, M Lotfalizadeh… - Phytotherapy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial membrane barrier provides a cytoplasmic environment for organelles of bacteria.
The membrane is composed of lipid compounds containing phosphatide protein and a …

The role of nanotechnology in combating biofilm-based antibiotic resistance

B Malaekeh-Nikouei, BSF Bazzaz, E Mirhadi… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many serious infections result from persistent microbial biofilms that do not respond to
conventional antibiotic therapy. Various therapeutic approaches have been developed and …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase (LasB) as a therapeutic target

MJ Everett, DT Davies - Drug Discovery Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The Pseudomonas aeruginosa LasB elastase (elastase B, pseudolysin) is the predominant
protease in the P. aeruginosa secretome. It has been shown to hydrolyse a vast array of host …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging therapies against infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa

B Tümmler - F1000Research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been marked with the highest priority for
surveillance and epidemiological research on the basis of parameters such as incidence …

SPRINT: a Cas13a-based platform for detection of small molecules

RS Iwasaki, RT Batey - Nucleic Acids Research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Recent efforts in biological engineering have made detection of nucleic acids in samples
more rapid, inexpensive and sensitive using CRISPR-based approaches. We expand one of …

Can Biofilm Be Reversed Through Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa?

S Yan, G Wu - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium causing diseases in plants,
animals, and humans, and its drug resistance is a major concern in medical care. Biofilms …

Discovery of Amphiphilic Xanthohumol Derivatives as Membrane-Targeting Antimicrobials against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

W Cheng, T Xu, L Cui, Z Xue, J Liu… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are increasing worldwide, and with
limited clinically available antibiotics, it is urgent to develop new antimicrobials to combat …

New Pqs Quorum Sensing System Inhibitor as an Antibacterial Synergist against Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

J Liu, JS Hou, YQ Chang, LJ Peng… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Development of new bacterial biofilm inhibitors as antibacterial synergists is an effective
strategy to solve the resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this paper, a series of 3 …