Reactive oxidant species induced by antifungal drugs: identity, origins, functions, and connection to stress-induced cell death

I Gonzalez-Jimenez, DS Perlin, E Shor - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Reactive oxidant species (ROS) are unstable, highly reactive molecules that are produced
by cells either as byproducts of metabolism or synthesized by specialized enzymes. ROS …

Cancer drug-tolerant persister cells: from biological questions to clinical opportunities

M Russo, M Chen, E Mariella, H Peng… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of drug resistance is the most substantial challenge to the effectiveness of
anticancer therapies. Orthogonal approaches have revealed that a subset of cells, known as …

From Petri Dishes to Patients to Populations: Scales and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Antibiotic Resistance

C Souque, I González Ojeda… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Tackling the challenge created by antibiotic resistance requires understanding the
mechanisms behind its evolution. Like any evolutionary process, the evolution of …

Integrative genomics would strengthen AMR understanding through ONE health approach

CSC Liu, R Pandey - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Emergence of drug-induced antimicrobial resistance (AMR) forms a crippling health and
economic crisis worldwide, causing high mortality from otherwise treatable diseases and …

[HTML][HTML] Connecting the dots: Computational network analysis for disease insight and drug repurposing

N Siminea, E Czeizler, VB Popescu, I Petre… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Networks have been successfully applied in biology and medicine for several
decades.•Network methods play a key role in personalized and precision medicine.•Rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Imidazoles and Quaternary Ammonium Compounds as Effective Therapies against (Multidrug-Resistant) Bacterial Wound Infections

L Van de Vliet, T Vackier, K Thevissen, D Decoster… - Antibiotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background/Objectives: The rise and spread of antimicrobial resistance complicates the
treatment of bacterial wound pathogens, further increasing the need for newer, effective …

Controlled-diffusion centrifugal microfluidic for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing

Z Pang, S Li, S Wang, Z Cai, S Zhang, C Wan… - Analytica Chimica …, 2024 - Elsevier
The abuse of antibiotics has become a global public safety issue, leading to the
development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The development of antimicrobial …

Estimating mutation rates under heterogeneous stress responses

L Lansch-Justen, M El Karoui… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Exposure to environmental stressors, including certain antibiotics, induces stress responses
in bacteria. Some of these responses increase mutagenesis and thus potentially accelerate …

SOS-Inducing Drugs Trigger Nucleic Acid Release and Biofilm Formation in Gram-Negative Bacteria

P Demjanenko, S Zheng, JK Crane - Biomolecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Our laboratory recently reported that induction of the SOS response, triggered by SOS-
inducing drugs, was accompanied by a large release of DNA from enteric bacteria. The SOS …

SWOT and Root Cause Analyses of Antimicrobial Resistance to Oral Antimicrobial Treatment of Cystitis

P Tyagi, S Tyagi, L Stewart, S Glickman - Antibiotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Nearly 150 million cases of urinary tract infections (UTIs) are reported each year, of which
uncomplicated cystitis triggers> 25% of outpatient prescriptions of oral antimicrobial …