Mechanism of action of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides

C Ongpipattanakul, EK Desormeaux… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a natural
product class that has undergone significant expansion due to the rapid growth in genome …

Fighting antibiotic resistance—strategies and (pre) clinical developments to find new antibacterials

S Walesch, J Birkelbach, G Jézéquel, FPJ Haeckl… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Antibacterial resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health. The development of
new therapeutics against bacterial pathogens has slowed drastically since the approvals of …

Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

KS Ikuta, LR Swetschinski, GR Aguilar, F Sharara… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Reducing the burden of death due to infection is an urgent global public health
priority. Previous studies have estimated the number of deaths associated with drug …

The IUPHAR/BPS guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2024

SD Harding, JF Armstrong, E Faccenda… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (GtoPdb; https://www.
guidetopharmacology. org) is an open-access, expert-curated, online database that …

Antibiotic discovery and resistance: the chase and the race

K Iskandar, J Murugaiyan, D Hammoudi Halat… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The history of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) evolution and the diversity of the
environmental resistome indicate that AMR is an ancient natural phenomenon. Acquired …

Adding flying wings: butterfly-shaped NIR-II AIEgens with multiple molecular rotors for photothermal combating of bacterial biofilms

D Yan, Y Huang, J Zhang, Q Wu, G Song… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ever-increasing threats of multidrug-resistant bacteria and their biofilm-associated
infections have bred a desperate demand for alternative remedies to combat them. Near …

PLSDB: advancing a comprehensive database of bacterial plasmids

GP Schmartz, A Hartung, P Hirsch, F Kern… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Plasmids are known to contain genes encoding for virulence factors and antibiotic
resistance mechanisms. Their relevance in metagenomic data processing is steadily …

Potent antibiotic design via guided search from antibacterial activity evaluations

L Chen, L Yu, L Gao - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria makes the discovery of new antibiotics
an urgent issue, but finding new molecules with the desired antibacterial activity is an …

Glycomimetics for the inhibition and modulation of lectins

S Leusmann, P Ménová, E Shanin, A Titz… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbohydrates are essential mediators of many processes in health and disease. They
regulate self-/non-self-discrimination, are key elements of cellular communication, cancer …

[HTML][HTML] An antibiotic from an uncultured bacterium binds to an immutable target

R Shukla, AJ Peoples, KC Ludwig, S Maity, MGN Derks… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Antimicrobial resistance is a leading mortality factor worldwide. Here, we report the
discovery of clovibactin, an antibiotic isolated from uncultured soil bacteria. Clovibactin …