Fighting bacterial persistence: Current and emerging anti-persister strategies and therapeutics

V Defraine, M Fauvart, J Michiels - Drug Resistance Updates, 2018 - Elsevier
In addition to the well-known strategies of antibiotic resistance and biofilm formation,
bacterial populations possess an additional survival strategy to endure hostile environments …

Anti-tuberculosis activity and its structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies of oxadiazole derivatives: A key review

SK Verma, R Verma, S Verma, Y Vaishnav… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the increasing number of cases of inactive and drug-resistance tuberculosis, there is an
urgent need to develop new potent molecules set for fighting this brutal disease. Medicinal …

CRISPRi chemical genetics and comparative genomics identify genes mediating drug potency in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Li, NC Poulton, JS Chang, ZA Azadian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection is notoriously difficult to treat. Treatment efficacy
is limited by Mtb's intrinsic drug resistance, as well as its ability to evolve acquired resistance …

The bewildering antitubercular action of pyrazinamide

EA Lamont, NA Dillon, AD Baughn - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a cornerstone antimicrobial drug used exclusively for the treatment of
tuberculosis (TB). Due to its ability to shorten drug therapy by 3 months and reduce disease …

Recent advancements and developments in search of anti-tuberculosis agents: a quinquennial update and future directions

TM Dhameliya, KA Bhakhar, ND Gajjar, KA Patel… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) has been considered as the highly chronic, contagious and infectious
disorder caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Every year more than 10 million …

Comparison of proteomic responses as global approach to antibiotic mechanism of action elucidation

CHR Senges, JJ Stepanek, M Wenzel… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
New antibiotics are urgently needed to address the mounting resistance challenge. In early
drug discovery, one of the bottlenecks is the elucidation of targets and mechanisms. To …

Oxadiazole scaffolds in anti-tuberculosis drug discovery

SS De, MP Khambete, MS Degani - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
With the increasing number of cases of latent and drug resistant tuberculosis, there is an
urgent need to develop new, potent molecules capable of combating this deadly disease …

Improved Antibacterial Activity of 1,3,4-Oxadiazole-Based Compounds That Restrict Staphylococcus aureus Growth Independent of LtaS Function

EJA Douglas, B Marshall, A Alghamadi… - ACS infectious …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The lipoteichoic acid (LTA) biosynthesis pathway has emerged as a promising antimicrobial
therapeutic target. Previous studies identified the 1, 3, 4 oxadiazole compound 1771 as an …

trans-Translation inhibitors bind to a novel site on the ribosome and clear Neisseria gonorrhoeae in vivo

ZD Aron, A Mehrani, ED Hoffer, KL Connolly… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bacterial ribosome rescue pathways that remove ribosomes stalled on mRNAs during
translation have been proposed as novel antibiotic targets because they are essential in …

Tag-dependent substrate selection of ClpX underlies secondary differentiation of Chlamydia trachomatis

NA Wood, AR Swoboda, AM Blocker, DJ Fisher… - Mbio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite having a highly reduced genome, Chlamydia trachomatis undergoes a complex
developmental cycle in which the bacteria differentiate between the following two …