Metabolomics in infectious diseases and drug discovery

V Tounta, Y Liu, A Cheyne, G Larrouy-Maumus - Molecular omics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Metabolomics has emerged as an invaluable tool that can be used along with genomics,
transcriptomics and proteomics to understand host–pathogen interactions at small-molecule …

Lipid droplets, the central hub integrating cell metabolism and the immune system

W Zhang, L Xu, L Zhu, Y Liu, S Yang… - Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are commonly found in various biological cells and are organelles
related to cell metabolism. LDs, the number and size of which are heterogeneous across cell …

MS2Query: reliable and scalable MS2 mass spectra-based analogue search

NF de Jonge, JJR Louwen, E Chekmeneva… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolomics-driven discoveries of biological samples remain hampered by the grand
challenge of metabolite annotation and identification. Only few metabolites have an …

Interaction of acetic acid bacteria and lactic acid bacteria in multispecies solid-state fermentation of traditional Chinese cereal vinegar

M Xia, X Zhang, Y Xiao, Q Sheng, L Tu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The microbial community plays an important role on the solid-state fermentation (SSF) of
Chinese cereal vinegar, where acetic acid bacteria (AAB) and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are …

Endophytic Bacterium Serratia plymuthica From Chinese Leek Suppressed Apple Ring Rot on Postharvest Apple Fruit

M Sun, J Liu, J Li, Y Huang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Apple ring rot caused by Botryosphaeria dothidea is an economically significant plant
disease that spreads across the apple production areas in China. The pathogen infects …

In vitro anti-TB properties, in silico target validation, molecular docking and dynamics studies of substituted 1, 2, 4-oxadiazole analogues against Mycobacterium …

PK Deb, NA Al-Shar'i, KN Venugopala… - Journal of enzyme …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The alarming increase in multi-and extensively drug-resistant (MDR and XDR) strains of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) has triggered the scientific community to search for …

The implication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-mediated metabolism of targeted xenobiotics

V Singh, GA Dziwornu, K Chibale - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Drug metabolism is generally associated with liver enzymes. However, in the case of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), Mtb-mediated …

Nitrogen metabolism in mycobacteria: the key genes and targeted antimicrobials

Y Xu, S Ma, Z Huang, L Wang, SHA Raza… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogen metabolism is an important physiological process that affects the survival and
virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. M. tuberculosis's utilization of nitrogen in the …

Understanding metabolic regulation between host and pathogens: New opportunities for the development of improved therapeutic strategies against Mycobacterium …

JH Park, D Shim, KES Kim, W Lee… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) causes chronic granulomatous lung disease in humans.
Recently, novel strategies such as host-directed therapeutics and adjunctive therapies that …

Activity-based annotation: the emergence of systems biochemistry

KY Rhee, RS Jansen, C Grundner - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Current tools to annotate protein function have failed to keep pace with the speed of DNA
sequencing and exponentially growing number of proteins of unknown function (PUFs). A …