CRISPR-Cas-based antimicrobials: design, challenges, and bacterial mechanisms of resistance

A Mayorga-Ramos, J Zúñiga-Miranda… - ACS Infectious …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains is a source of public health concern
across the globe. As the discovery of new conventional antibiotics has stalled significantly …

Intestinal colonization with multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales: screening, epidemiology, clinical impact, and strategies to decolonize carriers

EI Campos-Madueno, M Moradi, Y Eddoubaji… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The clinical impact of infections due to extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-and/or
carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (Ent) has reached dramatic levels worldwide …

Engineered phage with antibacterial CRISPR–Cas selectively reduce E. coli burden in mice

YE Gencay, D Jasinskytė, C Robert, S Semsey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Antibiotic treatments have detrimental effects on the microbiome and lead to antibiotic
resistance. To develop a phage therapy against a diverse range of clinically relevant …

Exploring nano-enabled CRISPR-Cas-powered strategies for efficient diagnostics and treatment of infectious diseases

AK Dubey, V Kumar Gupta, M Kujawska… - Journal of Nanostructure …, 2022 - Springer
Biomedical researchers have subsequently been inspired the development of new
approaches for precisely changing an organism's genomic DNA in order to investigate …

The application of the CRISPR-Cas system in antibiotic resistance

S Tao, H Chen, N Li, W Liang - Infection and drug resistance, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence and global epidemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a serious
threat to global public health in recent years. AMR genes are shared between bacterial …

Associate toxin-antitoxin with CRISPR-Cas to kill multidrug-resistant pathogens

R Wang, X Shu, H Zhao, Q Xue, C Liu, A Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CreTA, CRISPR-regulated toxin-antitoxin (TA), safeguards CRISPR-Cas immune systems by
inducing cell dormancy/death upon their inactivation. Here, we characterize a bacterial …

Biomaterials-mediated CRISPR/Cas9 delivery: recent challenges and opportunities in gene therapy

AK Dubey, E Mostafavi - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The use of biomaterials in delivering CRISPR/Cas9 for gene therapy in infectious diseases
holds tremendous potential. This innovative approach combines the advantages of …

Role of CRISPR-Cas systems and anti-CRISPR proteins in bacterial antibiotic resistance

H Kadkhoda, P Gholizadeh, HS Kafil, R Ghotaslou… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The emergence and development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a serious threat to
global public health. Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are often located on mobile genetic …

A comprehensive appraisal of mechanism of anti-CRISPR proteins: an advanced genome editor to amend the CRISPR gene editing

N Choudhary, D Tandi, RK Verma, VK Yadav… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The development of precise and controlled CRISPR-Cas tools has been made possible by
the discovery of protein inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas systems, called anti-CRISPRs (Acrs). The …

CRISPR-Based Gene Editing in Acinetobacter baumannii to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

M Junaid, K Thirapanmethee, P Khuntayaporn… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant threat to the health, social, environment,
and economic sectors on a global scale and requires serious attention to addressing this …