Unrealized targets in the discovery of antibiotics for gram-negative bacterial infections

U Theuretzbacher, B Blasco, M Duffey… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in areas that include genomics, systems biology, protein structure determination
and artificial intelligence provide new opportunities for target-based antibacterial drug …

A review of antibacterial candidates with new modes of action

MS Butler, W Vollmer, ECA Goodall… - ACS Infectious …, 2024 - ACS Publications
There is a lack of new antibiotics to combat drug-resistant bacterial infections that
increasingly threaten global health. The current pipeline of clinical-stage antimicrobials is …

Antibiotic Heteroresistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae

K Stojowska-Swędrzyńska, A Łupkowska… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the most common pathogens responsible for infections,
including pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and bacteremias. The increasing prevalence …

Plasmids Shape the Current Prevalence of tmexCD1-toprJ1 among Klebsiella pneumoniae in Food Production Chains

K Peng, Q Wang, Y Yin, Y Li, Y Liu, M Wang, SS Qin… - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The emergence of novel antimicrobial resistance genes conferring resistance to last-resort
antimicrobials poses a serious challenge to global public health security. Recently, one …

Molecular diagnosis of steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency: a practical approach

M Arriba, B Ezquieta - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adrenal insufficiency in paediatric patients is mostly due to congenital adrenal hyperplasia
(CAH), a severe monogenic disease caused by steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD …

Genomic insights into linezolid-resistant Enterococci revealed its evolutionary diversity and poxtA copy number heterogeneity

Q Wang, K Peng, Z Liu, Y Li, X Xiao, XD Du, R Li… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives This study aimed to determine the molecular mechanisms of linezolid-resistant
enterococci (LRE) in swine slaughterhouses in China and apply the “One Health” …

Ultra-deep long-read sequencing detects IS-mediated gene duplications as a potential trigger to generate arrays of resistance genes and a mechanism to induce …

CF Schuster, RE Weber, M Weig… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) are enzymes that can render their
hosts resistant to various β-lactam antibiotics. CTX-M-type enzymes are the most prevalent …

Gene amplifications cause high-level resistance against albicidin in gram-negative bacteria

M Saathoff, S Kosol, T Semmler, K Tedin, N Dimos… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Antibiotic resistance is a continuously increasing concern for public healthcare.
Understanding resistance mechanisms and their emergence is crucial for the development …

Bacterial memory in antibiotic resistance evolution and nanotechnology in evolutionary biology

C Zhang, Y Kong, Q Xiang, Y Ma, Q Guo - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Bacterial memory refers to the phenomenon in which past experiences influence current
behaviors in response to changing environments. It serves as a crucial process that enables …

[HTML][HTML] IS26 mediated blaCTX-M-65 amplification in Escherichia coli increase the antibiotic resistance to cephalosporin in vivo

Y Wang, J He, L Sun, Y Jiang, L Hu, S Leptihn… - Journal of Global …, 2023 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT Objectives To characterize two Escherichia coli strains isolated from a patient
pre-and post-treatment, using β-lactams and β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations …