Unconventional screening approaches for antibiotic discovery

MA Farha, ED Brown - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The dramatic rise in microbial drug resistance in recent years has led to ongoing searches
for novel drugs to add to the armory against infectious disease. Nevertheless, a paucity of …

Target-based antimicrobial drug discovery

LE Alksne, PM Dunman - Bacterial Pathogenesis: Methods and Protocols, 2008 - Springer
The continued increase in antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens, coupled with a
decrease in infectious disease research among pharmaceutical companies, has escalated …

Novel assays and novel strains–promising routes to new antibiotics?

S Donadio, L Brandi, P Monciardini… - Expert Opinion on …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
There is a need to develop novel antibiotics for treating infections caused by multiresistant
pathogens. Notwithstanding a plethora of novel targets and intensive high-throughput …

A high‐throughput screen for antibiotic drug discovery

TC Scanlon, SM Dostal… - Biotechnology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We describe an ultra‐high‐throughput screening platform enabling discovery and/or
engineering of natural product antibiotics. The methodology involves creation of hydrogel‐in …

Antibacterial discovery: 21st century challenges

PS Hoffman - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
It has been nearly 50 years since the golden age of antibiotic discovery (1945–1975) ended;
yet, we still struggle to identify novel drug targets and to deliver new chemical classes of …

Screening strategies to identify new antibiotics

MS Butler, MA Cooper - Current drug targets, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
The emergence of multi-drug resistant bacteria is one of the most critical medical problems
currently facing humankind, which will only get worse if no new antibacterial drugs are …

Postgenomic strategies in antibacterial drug discovery

H Brötz-Oesterhelt, P Sass - Future microbiology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
During the last decade the field of antibacterial drug discovery has changed in many aspects
including bacterial organisms of primary interest, discovery strategies applied and …

Structure-based discovery of antibacterial drugs

KJ Simmons, I Chopra, CWG Fishwick - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
The modern era of antibacterial chemotherapy began in the 1930s, and the next four
decades saw the discovery of almost all the major classes of antibacterial agents that are …

Keeping it simple: lessons from the golden era of antibiotic discovery

D Lyddiard, GL Jones, BW Greatrex - FEMS microbiology letters, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to currently used antibiotics. At the same time,
little progress has been made in discovering new antibacterial drugs to combat resistant …

How to stimulate and facilitate early stage antibiotic discovery

J Zuegg, KA Hansford, AG Elliott… - ACS infectious …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The discovery of novel antibiotics is essential to combat the rise of antimicrobial resistance.
While a number of initiatives are focused on advancing promising leads into the clinic, there …