New potentiators of ineffective antibiotics: Targeting the Gram-negative outer membrane to overcome intrinsic resistance

K Klobucar, ED Brown - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Because of the rise in antibiotic resistance and the dwindling pipeline of effective antibiotics,
it is imperative to explore avenues that breathe new life into existing drugs. This is …

[HTML][HTML] The use of antibody-antibiotic conjugates to fight bacterial infections

M Cavaco, MARB Castanho, V Neves - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is rapidly increasing and it is one of the
significant twenty-first century's healthcare challenges. Unfortunately, the development of …

[HTML][HTML] β-Lactam potentiators to re-sensitize resistant pathogens: Discovery, development, clinical use and the way forward

L Narendrakumar, M Chakraborty, S Kumari… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
β-lactam antibiotics are one of the most widely used and diverse classes of antimicrobial
agents for treating both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacterial infections. The β-lactam …

Discovery of antibiotics that selectively kill metabolically dormant bacteria

EJ Zheng, JA Valeri, IW Andrews, A Krishnan… - Cell Chemical …, 2024 - cell.com
There is a need to discover and develop non-toxic antibiotics that are effective against
metabolically dormant bacteria, which underlie chronic infections and promote antibiotic …

Advances on chemically modified antimicrobial peptides for generating peptide antibiotics

SB Rezende, KGN Oshiro, NGO Júnior… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are pinpointed as promising molecules against antibiotic-
resistant bacterial infections. Nevertheless, there is a discrepancy between the AMP …

Overcoming intrinsic resistance in gram-negative bacteria using small molecule adjuvants

RJ Melander, AE Mattingly, AM Nemeth… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gram-negative bacteria are intrinsically resistant to many classes of antibiotics,
predominantly due to the impermeability of the outer membrane and the presence of efflux …

Short peptides and their mimetics as potent antibacterial agents and antibiotic adjuvants

A Panjla, G Kaul, S Chopra, A Titz… - ACS Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been increasing unrelentingly worldwide, thus
negatively impacting human health. The discovery and development of novel antibiotics is …

Synergistic action of antimicrobial peptides and antibiotics: current understanding and future directions

S Taheri-Araghi - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotic resistance is a growing global problem that requires innovative therapeutic
approaches and strategies for administering antibiotics. One promising approach is …

Designing peptide amphiphiles as novel antibacterials and antibiotic adjuvants against gram-negative bacteria

H Xing, V Loya-Perez, J Franzen, PW Denton… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gram-negative strains are intrinsically resistant to most antibiotics due to the robust and
impermeable characteristic of their outer membrane. Self-assembling cationic peptide …

Polymyxins with Potent Antibacterial Activity against Colistin-Resistant Pathogens: Fine-Tuning Hydrophobicity with Unnatural Amino Acids

JS Jørgensen, EH Mood, ASH Knap… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In view of the increased prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among human pathogens,
antibiotics against multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are in urgent demand. In particular …