Efflux in Gram-negative bacteria: what are the latest opportunities for drug discovery?

T Gil-Gil, P Laborda, LE Ochoa-Sánchez… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The resistance-nodulation-division (RND) family is the most important group of
multidrug efflux pumps in Gram-negative bacteria. Their inhibition increases the …

[HTML][HTML] The Art of War with Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Targeting Mex Efflux Pumps Directly to Strategically Enhance Antipseudomonal Drug Efficacy

A Avakh, GD Grant, MJ Cheesman, T Kalkundri, S Hall - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) poses a grave clinical challenge due to its
multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype, leading to severe and life-threatening infections …

[HTML][HTML] Tackling antibiotic resistance by inducing transient and robust collateral sensitivity

S Hernando-Amado, P Laborda, JL Martínez - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Collateral sensitivity (CS) is an evolutionary trade-off traditionally linked to the mutational
acquisition of antibiotic resistance (AR). However, AR can be temporally induced, and the …

[HTML][HTML] Mixed strain pathogen populations accelerate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in patients

J Diaz Caballero, RM Wheatley, N Kapel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotic resistance poses a global health threat, but the within-host drivers of resistance
remain poorly understood. Pathogen populations are often assumed to be clonal within …

[HTML][HTML] Age of Antibiotic Resistance in MDR/XDR Clinical Pathogen of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

A Kothari, R Kherdekar, V Mago, M Uniyal, G Mamgain… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa remains one of the most challenging
phenomena of everyday medical science. The universal spread of high-risk clones of …

[HTML][HTML] Efflux pump gene amplifications bypass necessity of multiple target mutations for resistance against dual-targeting antibiotic

KPT Silva, G Sundar, A Khare - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotics that have multiple cellular targets theoretically reduce the frequency of resistance
evolution, but adaptive trajectories and resistance mechanisms against such antibiotics are …

Emerging strategies to target virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory infections

TM Hibbert, M Whiteley, SA Renshaw… - Critical reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that is responsible for infections in
people living with chronic respiratory conditions, such as cystic fibrosis (CF) and non-CF …

Ceftolozane/tazobactam plus tobramycin against free-floating and biofilm bacteria of hypermutable Pseudomonas aeruginosa epidemic strains: Resistance …

AA Agyeman, C López-Causapé, KE Rogers… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Acute exacerbations of biofilm-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in
cystic fibrosis (CF) have limited treatment options. Ceftolozane/tazobactam (alone and with a …

Rapid phenotypic convergence towards collateral sensitivity in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa presenting different genomic backgrounds

S Hernando-Amado, C López-Causapé… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Collateral sensitivity (CS) is an evolutionary trade-off by which acquisition of resistance to an
antibiotic leads to increased susceptibility to another. This Achilles' heel of antibiotic …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative Genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Isolated from Different Ecological Niches

J Gómez-Martínez, RC Rocha-Gracia, E Bello-López… - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome can change to adapt to different ecological niches.
We compared four genomes from a Mexican hospital and 59 genomes from GenBank from …