Bacterial synthetic biology: tools for novel drug discovery

X Wang, N Zhou, B Wang - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Bacterial synthetic biology has provided powerful tools to revolutionize the drug
discovery process. These tools can be harnessed to generate bacterial novel …

Recent advances in modelling Shigella infection

SL Miles, KE Holt, S Mostowy - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Shigella is an important human-adapted pathogen which contributes to a large global
burden of diarrhoeal disease. Together with the increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance …

Engineering probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 to block transfer of multiple antibiotic resistance genes by exploiting a type I CRISPR-Cas system

M Fang, R Zhang, C Wang, Z Liu, M Fei… - Applied and …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Many multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria have evolved through the accumulation of
antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Although the potential risk of probiotics as reservoirs of …

An automated microscopy workflow to study Shigella–neutrophil interactions and antibiotic efficacy in vivo

A Lensen, MC Gomes… - Disease models & …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Shigella are Gram-negative bacterial pathogens responsible for bacillary dysentery (also
called shigellosis). The absence of a licensed vaccine and widespread emergence of …

Transcriptional profiling of zebrafish identifies host factors controlling susceptibility to Shigella flexneri

V Torraca, RJ White, IM Sealy… - Disease models & …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Shigella flexneri is a human-adapted pathovar of Escherichia coli that can invade the
intestinal epithelium, causing inflammation and bacillary dysentery. Although an important …

De Novo Synthesis of a Conjugative System from Human Gut Metagenomic Data for Targeted Delivery of Cas9 Antimicrobials

TA Hamilton, BR Joris, A Shrestha… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metagenomic sequences represent an untapped source of genetic novelty, particularly for
conjugative systems that could be used for plasmid-based delivery of Cas9-derived …

A New Insight into Phage Combination Therapeutic Approaches Against Drug-Resistant Mixed Bacterial Infections

M Rahimian, D Jafari-Gharabaghlou, E Mohammadi… - PHAGE, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Rising antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens has become a substantial health
issue for human civilization. The emergence of these pathogens in high-risk diseases such …

From resistance to remedy: the role of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats system in combating antimicrobial resistance—a review

A Raza, P Fatima, B Yasmeen, ZA Rana… - Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's …, 2024 - Springer
The growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant and increasing
risk to public health worldwide, necessitating innovative strategies to restore the efficacy of …

The untapped potential of phage model systems as therapeutic agents

J Romeyer Dherbey, F Bertels - Virus Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
With the emergence of widespread antibiotic resistance, phages are an appealing
alternative to antibiotics in the fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria. Over the past few …

Bacteriophage as cargo and its application in nanomedicine

VK Arivarasan, C Consul - Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect the bacteria. However, different studies conducted on
the same display a wide range of applications in terms of therapeutic purposes. The …