Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules

M Lang, A Carvalho, Z Baharoglu… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Aminoglycosides (AGs) are long-known molecules successfully used against Gram-negative
pathogens. While their use declined with the discovery of new antibiotics, they are now …

Bacterial proton motive force as an unprecedented target to control antimicrobial resistance

B Yang, Z Tong, J Shi, Z Wang… - Medicinal Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Novel antibacterial therapies are urgently required to tackle the increasing number of
multidrug‐resistant pathogens. Identification of new antimicrobial targets is critical to avoid …

Enhancing cancer‐associated fibroblast fatty acid catabolism within a metabolically challenging tumor microenvironment drives colon cancer peritoneal metastasis

S Peng, D Chen, J Cai, Z Yuan, B Huang… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most cancer‐related deaths result from the progressive growth of metastases. Patients with
peritoneal metastatic (PM) colorectal cancer have reduced overall survival. Currently, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Fructose-enabled killing of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella enteritidis by gentamicin: Insight from reprogramming metabolomics

M Jiang, X Li, CL Xie, P Chen, W Luo, C Lin… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Salmonella enterica is a food-borne pathogen that poses a severe threat to both poultry
production and human health. Antibiotics are critical for the initial treatment of bacterial …

Combating antibiotic tolerance through activating bacterial metabolism

Y Liu, K Yang, H Zhang, Y Jia, Z Wang - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of antibiotic tolerance enables genetically susceptible bacteria to withstand
the killing by clinically relevant antibiotics. As is reported, an increasing body of evidence …

Acinetobacter metabolism in infection and antimicrobial resistance

X Ren, LD Palmer - Infection and Immunity, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter infections have high rates of mortality due to an increasing incidence of
infections by multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively-drug-resistant (XDR) strains …

Conformation dependent architectures of assembled antimicrobial peptides with enhanced antimicrobial ability

X Lan, J Zhong, R Huang, Y Liu, X Ma… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a developing class of natural and synthetic oligopeptides
with host defense mechanisms against a broad spectrum of microorganisms. With in‐depth …

The combination of antibiotic and non-antibiotic compounds improves antibiotic efficacy against multidrug-resistant bacteria

G Xiao, J Li, Z Sun - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bacterial antibiotic resistance, especially the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR)
strains, urgently requires the development of effective treatment strategies. It is always of …

A mini-review: environmental and metabolic factors affecting aminoglycoside efficacy

CM Webster, M Shepherd - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2023 - Springer
Following the discovery of streptomycin from Streptomyces griseus in the 1940s by Selman
Waksman and colleagues, aminoglycosides were first used to treat tuberculosis and then …

Structural‐Activity Relationship‐Inspired the Discovery of Saturated Fatty Acids as Novel Colistin Enhancers

J Cai, J Shi, C Chen, M He, Z Wang, Y Liu - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence and prevalence of mobile colistin resistance gene mcr have dramatically
compromised the clinical efficacy of colistin, a cyclopeptide antibiotic considered to be the …