Targeting antibiotic resistance

MF Chellat, L Raguž, R Riedl - … Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Finding strategies against the development of antibiotic resistance is a major global
challenge for the life sciences community and for public health. The past decades have seen …

Physiological functions of bacterial “multidrug” efflux pumps

PJF Henderson, C Maher, LDH Elbourne… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bacterial multidrug efflux pumps have come to prominence in human and veterinary
pathogenesis because they help bacteria protect themselves against the antimicrobials …

The TetR family of regulators

L Cuthbertson, JR Nodwell - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
The most common prokaryotic signal transduction mechanisms are the one-component
systems in which a single polypeptide contains both a sensory domain and a DNA-binding …

Antituberculosis drugs: ten years of research

YL Janin - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis is today amongst the worldwide health threats. As resistant strains of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis have slowly emerged, treatment failure is too often a fact …

Reversion of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by spiroisoxazoline SMARt-420

N Blondiaux, M Moune, M Desroses, R Frita, M Flipo… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to human health globally. Alarmingly,
multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis have now …

Tuberculosis: an overview of the immunogenic response, disease progression, and medicinal chemistry efforts in the last decade toward the development of potential …

A Sharma, M De Rosa, N Singla, G Singh… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tuberculosis (TB) is a slow growing, potentially debilitating disease that has plagued
humanity for centuries and has claimed numerous lives across the globe. Concerted efforts …

A highly conserved transcriptional repressor controls a large regulon involved in lipid degradation in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

SL Kendall, M Withers, CN Soffair… - Molecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Mycobacterium tuberculosis TetR‐type regulator Rv3574 has been implicated
in pathogenesis as it is induced in vivo, and genome‐wide essentiality studies show it is …

Synthetic EthR inhibitors boost antituberculous activity of ethionamide

N Willand, B Dirie, X Carette, P Bifani, A Singhal… - Nature medicine, 2009 - nature.com
The side effects associated with tuberculosis therapy bring with them the risk of
noncompliance and subsequent drug resistance. Increasing the therapeutic index of …

Molecular mechanism by which the nucleoid occlusion factor, SlmA, keeps cytokinesis in check

NK Tonthat, ST Arold, BF Pickering… - The EMBO …, 2011 - embopress.org
In Escherichia coli, cytokinesis is orchestrated by FtsZ, which forms a Z‐ring to drive
septation. Spatial and temporal control of Z‐ring formation is achieved by the Min and …

The underling mechanism of bacterial TetR/AcrR family transcriptional repressors

W Deng, C Li, J Xie - Cellular signalling, 2013 - Elsevier
Bacteria transcriptional regulators are classified by their functional and sequence
similarities. Member of the TetR/AcrR family is two-domain proteins including an N-terminal …