Chemically modified and conjugated antimicrobial peptides against superbugs

W Li, F Separovic, NM O'Brien-Simpson… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to human health that, by 2050,
will lead to more deaths from bacterial infections than cancer. New antimicrobial agents …

Conjugation of antimicrobial peptides to enhance therapeutic efficacy

SP Selvaraj, JY Chen - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The growing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has brought with it a continual
increase in the numbers of deaths from multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections. Since the …

Small molecular mimetics of antimicrobial peptides as a promising therapy to combat bacterial resistance

P Teng, H Shao, B Huang, J Xie, S Cui… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Clinically, antibiotics are widely used to treat infectious diseases; however, excessive drug
abuse and overuse exacerbate the prevalence of drug-resistant bacterial pathogens …

Novel fused pyridine derivatives containing pyrimidine moiety as prospective tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors: Design, synthesis, pharmacokinetics and molecular …

IMM Othman, MAM Gad-Elkareem, M Snoussi… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Thirteen fused pyridine derivatives have been designed, synthesized and characterized by 1
H NMR, 13 C NMR and IR spectral data and elemental analysis. Their in vitro antimicrobial …

Antimicrobial peptides isolated from insects and their potential applications

N Azmiera, A Krasilnikova, S Sahudin, H Al-Talib… - Journal of Asia-Pacific …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in insects have the potential to be developed as
chemotherapy agents against numerous microbial species. This article reviewed the existing …

Antimicrobial Guanidinylate Polycarbonates Show Oral In Vivo Efficacy Against Clostridioides Difficile

M Xue, S Chakraborty, R Gao, S Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging antibiotic resistance has been named by the World Health Organization
(WHO) as one of the top 10 threats to public health. Notably, methicillin‐resistant …

Solid‐Phase Synthesis of Peptidomimetics with Peptide Backbone Modifications

A Abdildinova, MJ Kurth… - Asian Journal of Organic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Peptidomimetics are a class of compounds with promising pharmacological properties.
Peptidomimetics reduce limitations of peptides including low bioavailability, poor stability …

Self-Assembling and Pore-Forming Peptoids as Antimicrobial Biomaterials

T Jian, M Wang, J Hettige, Y Li, L Wang, R Gao… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bacterial infections have been a serious threat to mankind throughout history. Natural
antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and their membrane disruption mechanism have generated …

Inhibition of the Ubiquitin transfer cascade by a peptidomimetic foldamer mimicking the E2 N-Terminal helix

L Zhou, IH Jeong, S Xue, M Xue, L Wang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The enzymatic cascades for ubiquitin transfer regulate key cellular processes and are the
intense focus of drug development for treating cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. E1 …

Dimeric lipo-α/sulfono-γ-AA hybrid peptides as broad-spectrum antibiotic agents

L Wei, R Gao, M Wang, Y Wang, Y Shi, M Gu… - Biomaterials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
There is an urgent need to develop novel antibiotic agents that can combat emerging drug
resistance. Herein, we report the design and investigation of a class of short dimeric …