Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery

MW Mullowney, KR Duncan, SS Elsayed… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Developments in computational omics technologies have provided new means to access
the hidden diversity of natural products, unearthing new potential for drug discovery. In …

Recommendations for the use of metagenomics for routine monitoring of antibiotic resistance in wastewater and impacted aquatic environments

BC Davis, C Brown, S Gupta, J Calarco… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Shotgun metagenomic sequencing of the collective genomic information carried across
microbial communities is emerging as a powerful approach for monitoring antibiotic …

CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

BP Alcock, W Huynh, R Chalil, KW Smith… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD; card. mcmaster. ca)
combines the Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO) with curated AMR gene (ARG) …

[HTML][HTML] Population-level impacts of antibiotic usage on the human gut microbiome

K Lee, S Raguideau, K Sirén, F Asnicar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The widespread usage of antimicrobials has driven the evolution of resistance in pathogenic
microbes, both increased prevalence of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) and their …

Deciphering basic and key traits of antibiotic resistome in influent and effluent of hospital wastewater treatment systems

L Zhu, L Yuan, XY Shuai, ZJ Lin, YJ Sun, ZC Zhou… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Hospital wastewater treatment system (HWTS) is an important source and environmental
reservoir of clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). However, how antibiotic …

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on profiles of antibiotic-resistant genes and bacteria in hospital wastewater

L Zhao, Z Lv, L Lin, X Li, J Xu, S Huang, Y Chen… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected healthcare worldwide and has led to the
excessive use of disinfectants and antimicrobial agents. However, the impact of excessive …

[HTML][HTML] Roving methyltransferases generate a mosaic epigenetic landscape and influence evolution in Bacteroides fragilis group

MJ Tisza, DDN Smith, AE Clark, JH Youn… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Three types of DNA methyl modifications have been detected in bacterial genomes, and
mechanistic studies have demonstrated roles for DNA methylation in physiological functions …

High-risk antibiotics positively correlated with antibiotic resistance genes in five typical urban wastewater

S Sun, Q Wang, N Wang, S Yang, H Qi - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic amount increased within close proximity to
human dominated ecosystems. However, few studies assessed the distribution of antibiotics …

[HTML][HTML] Resolving colistin resistance and heteroresistance in Enterobacter species

SP Doijad, N Gisch, R Frantz, BV Kumbhar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Species within the Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) include globally important
nosocomial pathogens. A three-year study of ECC in Germany identified Enterobacter …

A proposed framework for the identification of indicator genes for monitoring antibiotic resistance in wastewater: Insights from metagenomic sequencing

MH Tarek, E Garner - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to global human and animal health of our
time. Municipal wastewater has been identified as a hotspot of antibiotic resistance …