Antimicrobial blue light: A 'Magic Bullet'for the 21st century and beyond?

LG Leanse, C Dos Anjos, S Mushtaq, T Dai - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, antimicrobial blue light (aBL) at 400− 470 nm wavelength has
demonstrated immense promise as an alternative approach for the treatment of multidrug …

Engineering molecular theranostic probes for antibaterial therapy

X Wang, J Gong, J Wang, F Zhang, Z Mao… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacteria-caused infections have become one of the most notorious diseases threatening
human life and health worldwide. Nonetheless, the increase in antibiotic resistance plus …

Efficient killing of multidrug‐resistant internalized bacteria by AIEgens in vivo

Y Li, F Liu, J Zhang, X Liu, P Xiao, H Bai… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteria infected cells acting as “Trojan horses” not only protect bacteria from antibiotic
therapies and immune clearance, but also increase the dissemination of pathogens from the …

Metabolic labeling strategy boosted antibacterial efficiency for photothermal and photodynamic synergistic bacteria-infected wound therapy

N Li, G Wu, L Tang, W Zhou, S Yang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Pathogenic bacteria infections bring about a substantial risk to human health. Given the
development of antibiotic-resistance bacteria, alternative antibacterial strategies with great …

A New Perspective on the Antimicrobial Mechanism of Berberine Hydrochloride Against Staphylococcus aureus Revealed by Untargeted Metabolomic Studies

S Wu, K Yang, Y Hong, Y Gong, J Ni, N Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Berberine hydrochloride (BBR) is a natural product widely used in clinical medicine and
animal production. It has a variety of antimicrobial effects, but its complex antimicrobial …

Enhanced near‐infrared photocatalytic eradication of MRSA biofilms and osseointegration using oxide perovskite‐based P–N heterojunction

C Mao, W Zhu, Y Xiang, Y Zhu, J Shen, X Liu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) biofilm infections after orthopedic
implant increase the risk of failure and potentially cause amputation of limbs or life …

Lateral membrane organization as target of an antimicrobial peptidomimetic compound

A Melcrová, S Maity, J Melcr, NAW de Kok… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the leading concerns in medical care. Here we study the
mechanism of action of an antimicrobial cationic tripeptide, AMC-109, by combining high …

Flotillin-mediated stabilization of unfolded proteins in bacterial membrane microdomains

M Ukleja, L Kricks, G Torrens, I Peschiera… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The function of many bacterial processes depends on the formation of functional membrane
microdomains (FMMs), which resemble the lipid rafts of eukaryotic cells. However, the …

All-natural-molecule, bioluminescent photodynamic therapy results in complete tumor regression and prevents metastasis

H Yan, S Forward, KH Kim, Y Wu, J Hui, A Kashiparekh… - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-luminescent photodynamic therapy (PDT) has gained attention owing to its potential to
enable effective phototherapy without the bottleneck of shallow light penetration into tissues …

Chromophore-targeting precision antimicrobial phototherapy

S Jusuf, PT Dong - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Phototherapy, encompassing the utilization of both natural and artificial light, has emerged
as a dependable and non-invasive strategy for addressing a diverse range of illnesses …