Back to Nature: Medicinal plants as promising sources for antibacterial drugs in the post-antibiotic era

EM Abdallah, BY Alhatlani, R de Paula Menezes… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Undoubtedly, the advent of antibiotics in the 19th century had a substantial impact,
increasing human life expectancy. However, a multitude of scientific investigations now …

Natural products as a source for novel antibiotics

MG Moloney - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Natural products have historically been of crucial importance in the identification and
development of antibacterial agents. Interest in these systems has waned in recent years …

Teixobactin kills bacteria by a two-pronged attack on the cell envelope

R Shukla, F Lavore, S Maity, MGN Derks, CR Jones… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Antibiotics that use novel mechanisms are needed to combat antimicrobial resistance,–.
Teixobactin represents a new class of antibiotics with a unique chemical scaffold and lack of …

[HTML][HTML] Escaping mechanisms of ESKAPE pathogens from antibiotics and their targeting by natural compounds

R Jadimurthy, SB Mayegowda, SC Nayak… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The microorganisms that have developed resistance to available therapeutic agents are
threatening the globe and multidrug resistance among the bacterial pathogens is becoming …

Mode of action of teixobactins in cellular membranes

R Shukla, J Medeiros-Silva, A Parmar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The natural antibiotic teixobactin kills pathogenic bacteria without detectable resistance. The
difficult synthesis and unfavourable solubility of teixobactin require modifications, yet …

Total synthesis of teixobactin

K Jin, IH Sam, KHL Po, D Lin… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To cope with the global bacterial multidrug resistance, scientific communities have devoted
significant efforts to develop novel antibiotics, particularly those with new modes of actions …

Photo-induced radical thiol–ene chemistry: a versatile toolbox for peptide-based drug design

M Ahangarpour, I Kavianinia, PWR Harris… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
While the global market for peptide/protein-based therapeutics is witnessing significant
growth, the development of peptide drugs remains challenging due to their low oral …

Natural products acting against S. aureus through membrane and cell wall disruption

G Kumar, K Engle - Natural Product Reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2015 to 2022 Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is responsible for several
community and hospital-acquired infections with life-threatening complications such as …

Targeting a cell wall biosynthesis hot spot

A Müller, A Klöckner, T Schneider - Natural product reports, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2017 History points to the bacterial cell wall biosynthetic network as a very
effective target for antibiotic intervention, and numerous natural product inhibitors have been …

Elucidation of the teixobactin pharmacophore

H Yang, KH Chen, JS Nowick - ACS chemical biology, 2016 - ACS Publications
This paper elucidates the teixobactin pharmacophore by comparing the arginine analogue
of teixobactin Arg10-teixobactin to seven homologues with varying structure and …