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 …

Recent understanding of soil acidobacteria and their ecological significance: a critical review

S Kalam, A Basu, I Ahmad, RZ Sayyed… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Acidobacteria represents an underrepresented soil bacterial phylum whose members are
pervasive and copiously distributed across nearly all ecosystems. Acidobacterial sequences …

A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes

S Nayfach, S Roux, R Seshadri, D Udwary… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The reconstruction of bacterial and archaeal genomes from shotgun metagenomes has
enabled insights into the ecology and evolution of environmental and host-associated …

Specialized metabolic functions of keystone taxa sustain soil microbiome stability

W Xun, Y Liu, W Li, Y Ren, W Xiong, Z Xu, N Zhang… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background The relationship between biodiversity and soil microbiome stability remains
poorly understood. Here, we investigated the impacts of bacterial phylogenetic diversity on …

[HTML][HTML] The science of antibiotic discovery

K Lewis - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We are experiencing an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis, brought on by the drying up of
the antibiotic discovery pipeline and the resulting unchecked spread of resistant pathogens …

[HTML][HTML] Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics

M Miethke, M Pieroni, T Weber, M Brönstrup… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
An ever-increasing demand for novel antimicrobials to treat life-threatening infections
caused by the global spread of multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens stands in stark …

MIBiG 2.0: a repository for biosynthetic gene clusters of known function

SA Kautsar, K Blin, S Shaw… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Fueled by the explosion of (meta) genomic data, genome mining of specialized metabolites
has become a major technology for drug discovery and studying microbiome ecology. In …

[HTML][HTML] Biosynthetic potential of the global ocean microbiome

L Paoli, HJ Ruscheweyh, CC Forneris, F Hubrich… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Natural microbial communities are phylogenetically and metabolically diverse. In addition to
underexplored organismal groups, this diversity encompasses a rich discovery potential for …

Comprehensive prediction of secondary metabolite structure and biological activity from microbial genome sequences

MA Skinnider, CW Johnston… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Novel antibiotics are urgently needed to address the looming global crisis of antibiotic
resistance. Historically, the primary source of clinically used antibiotics has been microbial …

A systematic review of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in estuarine and coastal environments

D Zheng, G Yin, M Liu, C Chen, Y Jiang, L Hou… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are prevalent in estuarine and coastal
environments due to substantial terrestrial input, aquaculture effluent, and sewage …