Mycobacterium tuberculosis and interactions with the host immune system: opportunities for nanoparticle based immunotherapeutics and vaccines

RB Bekale, SM Du Plessis, NJ Hsu, JR Sharma… - Pharmaceutical …, 2019 - Springer
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains a deadly infectious
disease. The thin pipeline of new drugs for TB, the ineffectiveness in adults of the only …

Pyridine and quinoline molecules as crucial protagonists in the never-stopping discovery of new agents against tuberculosis

AF Villamizar-Mogotocoro, LY Vargas-Méndez… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) disease remains to be an alarming infection worldwide with nearly 1.6
million deaths per year ranking above HIV/AIDS. Although Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Acyldepsipeptide antibiotics kill mycobacteria by preventing the physiological functions of the ClpP1P2 protease

K Famulla, P Sass, I Malik, T Akopian… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Clp protease complex in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is unusual in its composition,
functional importance and activation mechanism. Whilst most bacterial species contain a …

Permeability of TB drugs through the mycolic acid monolayer: a tale of two force fields

S Basu, S Mandal, PK Maiti - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Tuberculosis (TB) treatment becomes challenging due to the unique cell wall structure of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb). Among various components of the M. tb cell wall …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cell Wall Permeability Model Generation Using Chemoinformatics and Machine Learning Approaches

S Nagamani, GN Sastry - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
The drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) are evolving at an alarming
rate, and this indicates the urgent need for the development of novel antitubercular drugs …

Virtual Screening, pharmacophore development and structure based similarity search to identify inhibitors against IdeR, a transcription factor of Mycobacterium …

A Rohilla, G Khare, AK Tyagi - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract ideR, an essential gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is an attractive drug target
as its conditional knockout displayed attenuated growth phenotype in vitro and in vivo. To …

Combining Computational Methods for Hit to Lead Optimization in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Drug Discovery

S Ekins, JS Freundlich, JV Hobrath… - Pharmaceutical …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose Tuberculosis treatments need to be shorter and overcome drug resistance. Our
previous large scale phenotypic high-throughput screening against Mycobacterium …

Free Energy Barriers for Passive Drug Transport through the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Outer Membrane: A Molecular Dynamics Study

IS Steshin, AV Vasyankin, EA Shirokova… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The emergence of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis strains poses a significant challenge to
modern medicine. The development of new antituberculosis drugs is hindered by the low …

Current advances in antitubercular drug discovery: Potent prototypes and new targets

G Felipe dos Santos Fernandes… - Current medicinal …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by bacterium of the Mycobacterium
genus, mainly by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The World Health Organization aims to …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-based in silico approaches for drug discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

ADH Kingdon, LJ Alderwick - Computational and Structural Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of TB and was estimated to cause 1.4
million death in 2019, alongside 10 million new infections. Drug resistance is a growing …