[HTML][HTML] NTM drug discovery: status, gaps and the way forward

ML Wu, DB Aziz, V Dartois, T Dick - Drug discovery today, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Incidence of lung disease caused by non-TB mycobacteria (NTM) is
increasing.•Current treatments are ineffective.•There is an urgent need to establish a drug …

[PDF][PDF] Galleria mellonella–intracellular bacteria pathogen infection models: the ins and outs

M Asai, Y Li, SM Newton, BD Robertson… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth) larvae are used widely as surrogate infectious
disease models, due to ease of use and the presence of an innate immune system …

[HTML][HTML] Activity of specialized biomolecules against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria

TD Tavares, JC Antunes, J Padrão, AI Ribeiro, A Zille… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The increased resistance of bacteria against conventional pharmaceutical solutions, the
antibiotics, has raised serious health concerns. This has stimulated interest in the …

Current scenario of indole derivatives with potential anti-drug-resistant cancer activity

Y Jia, X Wen, Y Gong, X Wang - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer chemotherapy is frequently hampered by drug resistance, so the resistance to
anticancer agents represents one of the major obstacles for the effective cancer treatment …

Verapamil targets membrane energetics in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

C Chen, S Gardete, RS Jansen, A Shetty… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycobacterium tuberculosis kills more people than any other bacterial pathogen and is
becoming increasingly untreatable due to the emergence of resistance. Verapamil, an FDA …

Direct, Metal‐free C(sp2)−H Chalcogenation of Indoles and Imidazopyridines with Dichalcogenides Catalysed by KIO3

J Rafique, S Saba, MS Franco… - … A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we report a greener protocol for the synthesis of 3‐Se/S‐indoles and imidazo [1, 2‐
a] pyridines through direct C (sp2)− H bond chalcogenation of heteroarenes with half molar …

Targeting mycobacterial membranes and membrane proteins: Progress and limitations

G Kumar, S Kapoor - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Among the various bacterial infections, tuberculosis continues to hold center stage. Its
causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, possesses robust defense mechanisms …

Pharmaceutical significance of azepane based motifs for drug discovery: A critical review

GF Zha, KP Rakesh, HM Manukumar… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Azepane-based compounds showed a variety of pharmacological properties, and its
derivatives possess a high degree of structural diversity, and it is useful for the discovery of …

Amphiphilic small molecule antimicrobials: From cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) to mechanism-related, structurally-diverse antimicrobials

J Yuan, J Wang, X Li, Y Zhang, J Xian, C Wang… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacterial infections are characterized by their rapid and widespread proliferation, leading to
significant morbidity. Despite the availability of a variety of antimicrobial drugs, the …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptide mimics for clinical use: does size matter?

J Svenson, N Molchanova, CI Schroeder - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The search for efficient antimicrobial therapies that can alleviate suffering caused by
infections from resistant bacteria is more urgent than ever before. Infections caused by multi …