Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance revisited

EM Darby, E Trampari, P Siasat, MS Gaya… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotic resistance is a global health emergency, with resistance detected to all antibiotics
currently in clinical use and only a few novel drugs in the pipeline. Understanding the …

Tolerance and resistance of microbial biofilms

O Ciofu, C Moser, PØ Jensen, N Høiby - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic infections caused by microbial biofilms represent an important clinical challenge.
The recalcitrance of microbial biofilms to antimicrobials and to the immune system is a major …

Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems

D Jurėnas, N Fraikin, F Goormaghtigh… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Toxin–antitoxin systems are widespread in bacterial genomes. They are usually composed
of two elements: a toxin that inhibits an essential cellular process and an antitoxin that …

Biomaterial-based antimicrobial therapies for the treatment of bacterial infections

PP Kalelkar, M Riddick, AJ García - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
The rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including strains that are resistant to last-resort
antibiotics, and the limited ability of antibiotics to eradicate biofilms have necessitated the …

Antidepressants can induce mutation and enhance persistence toward multiple antibiotics

Y Wang, Z Yu, P Ding, J Lu, L Mao… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Antibiotic resistance is an urgent threat to global health. Antidepressants are consumed in
large quantities, with a similar pharmaceutical market share (4.8%) to antibiotics (5%). While …

Antibiotic resistance and persistence—Implications for human health and treatment perspectives

M Huemer, S Mairpady Shambat, SD Brugger… - EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and persistence are associated with an elevated risk of
treatment failure and relapsing infections. They are thus important drivers of increased …

The stringent response and physiological roles of (pp) pGpp in bacteria

SE Irving, NR Choudhury, RM Corrigan - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The stringent response is a stress signalling system mediated by the alarmones guanosine
tetraphosphate (ppGpp) and guanosine pentaphosphate (pppGpp) in response to nutrient …

Clinically relevant mutations in core metabolic genes confer antibiotic resistance

AJ Lopatkin, SC Bening, AL Manson, JM Stokes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Although metabolism plays an active role in antibiotic lethality, antibiotic resistance is
generally associated with drug target modification, enzymatic inactivation, and/or transport …

[HTML][HTML] The science of antibiotic discovery

K Lewis - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We are experiencing an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis, brought on by the drying up of
the antibiotic discovery pipeline and the resulting unchecked spread of resistant pathogens …

Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria: mechanisms, evolution, and persistence

E Christaki, M Marcou, A Tofarides - Journal of molecular evolution, 2020 - Springer
In recent years, we have seen antimicrobial resistance rapidly emerge at a global scale and
spread from one country to the other faster than previously thought. Superbugs and …