How to enter a bacterium: bacterial porins and the permeation of antibiotics

JD Prajapati, U Kleinekathöfer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Despite tremendous successes in the field of antibiotic discovery seen in the previous
century, infectious diseases have remained a leading cause of death. More specifically …

Atomistic simulation of molecules interacting with biological nanopores: from current understanding to future directions

A Acharya, JD Prajapati… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Biological nanopores have been at the focus of numerous studies due to their role in many
biological processes as well as their (prospective) technological applications. Among many …

Partitioning of seven different classes of antibiotics into LPS monolayers supports three different permeation mechanisms through the outer bacterial membrane

H Cetuk, A Anishkin, AJ Scott, SB Rempe, RK Ernst… - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative (G−) bacteria presents a barrier for many
classes of antibacterial agents. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), present in the outer leaflet of the …

Changes in salt concentration modify the translocation of neutral molecules through a ΔCymA nanopore in a non-monotonic manner

JD Prajapati, S Pangeni, MA Aksoyoglu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The voltage-dependent transport through biological and artificial nanopores is being used in
many applications such as DNA or protein sequencing and sensing. The primary approach …

[HTML][HTML] An antibiotic-resistance conferring mutation in a neisserial porin: Structure, ion flux, and ampicillin binding

A Bartsch, CM Ives, C Kattner, F Pein, M Diehn… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gram-negative bacteria cause the majority of highly drug-resistant bacterial infections. To
cross the outer membrane of the complex Gram-negative cell envelope, antibiotics permeate …

Physicochemical properties of zwitterionic drugs in therapy

K Mazák, B Noszál - ChemMedChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In solution, amphoteric compounds exist in anionic, uncharged, zwitterionic and cationic
forms. The importance of zwitterionic drugs is currently under‐represented in the literature …

Voltage-dependent transport of neutral solutes through nanopores: a molecular view

JD Prajapati, U Kleinekathöfer - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The permeation of (neutral) molecules through nanopores in the presence of external
voltages depends on several factors including pore electrostatics, electrophoretic force, and …

Permeation of β-lactamase inhibitors through the general porins of gram-negative bacteria

A Pira, MA Scorciapino, IV Bodrenko, A Bosin… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Modern medicine relies upon antibiotics, but we have arrived to the point where our inability
to come up with new effective molecules against resistant pathogens, together with the …

Fully automatic multiresolution idealization for filtered ion channel recordings: flickering event detection

F Pein, I Tecuapetla-Gómez, OM Schütte… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new model-free segmentation method, JULES, which combines recent
statistical multiresolution techniques with local deconvolution for idealization of ion channel …

Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Reveal Multiple Strategies for Vibrio parahaemolyticus to Tolerate Sub-Lethal Concentrations of Three Antibiotics

L Yang, P Yu, J Wang, T Zhao, Y Zhao, Y Pan, L Chen - Foods, 2024 - mdpi.com
Vibrio parahaemolyticus can cause acute gastroenteritis, wound infections, and septicemia
in humans. The overuse of antibiotics in aquaculture may lead to a high incidence of the …