Pharmaceutical approaches to target antibiotic resistance mechanisms

D Schillaci, V Spanò, B Parrino… - Journal of medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
There is urgent need for new therapeutic strategies to fight the global threat of antibiotic
resistance. The focus of this Perspective is on chemical agents that target the most common …

Chemical basis of combination therapy to combat antibiotic resistance

Z Si, K Pethe, MB Chan-Park - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
The antimicrobial resistance crisis is a global health issue requiring discovery and
development of novel therapeutics. However, conventional screening of natural products or …

ESKAPEing the labyrinth of antibacterial discovery

R Tommasi, DG Brown, GK Walkup… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Antimicrobial drug resistance is a growing threat to global public health. Multidrug resistance
among the'ESKAPE'organisms—encompassing Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus …

Antibiotic potentiators against multidrug-resistant bacteria: discovery, development, and clinical relevance

M Chawla, J Verma, R Gupta, B Das - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial resistance in clinically important microbes has emerged as an unmet
challenge in global health. Extensively drug-resistant bacterial pathogens have cropped up …

Counteracting antibiotic resistance enzymes and efflux pumps

M Zheng, TJ Lupoli - Current opinion in microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Adjuvants potentiate existing antibiotics or combat mechanisms of
resistance.•Probes enable the identification of enzymes that modify tuberculosis …

New strategies for combating multidrug-resistant bacteria

GD Wright, AD Sutherland - Trends in molecular medicine, 2007 - cell.com
Antibiotic resistance is a problem that continues to challenge the healthcare sector. In
particular, multidrug resistance is now common in familiar pathogens such as …

Novel strategies in the war against antibiotic resistance

S Cascioferro, B Parrino, D Carbone… - Future Medicinal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The global threat of antibiotic resistance is steadily growing. Antibiotic resistance may
involve any class of antibiotic, including second-and third-line agents that have been …

Introduction: drug resistance

N Kurt Yilmaz, CA Schiffer - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
3235 https://dx. doi. org/10.1021/acs. chemrev. 1c00118 Chem. Rev. 2021, 121, 3235− 3237
drugs often optimized with structure-based strategies. They describe the approaches that …

New understanding of multidrug efflux and permeation in antibiotic resistance, persistence, and heteroresistance

PD Manrique, CA López, S Gnanakaran… - Annals of the New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotics effective against Gram‐negative ESKAPE pathogens are a critical area of unmet
need. Infections caused by these pathogens are not only difficult to treat but finding new …

Mechanistic duality of bacterial efflux substrates and inhibitors: example of simple substituted cinnamoyl and naphthyl amides

N D'Cunha, M Moniruzzaman, K Haynes… - ACS infectious …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antibiotic resistance poses an immediate and growing threat to human health. Multidrug
efflux pumps are promising targets for overcoming antibiotic resistance with small-molecule …