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 …

Antibody–antibiotic conjugates: a novel therapeutic platform against bacterial infections

S Mariathasan, MW Tan - Trends in molecular medicine, 2017 - cell.com
Antibodies are potent components of the immune repertoire and have been successfully
exploited to treat bacterial infections. Recently an antibody–antibiotic conjugate (AAC) that …

Recent advances in the design of antimicrobial peptide conjugates

ARP Silva, MS Guimarães, J Rabelo… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are ubiquitous host defense peptides characterized by their
antibiotic activity and lower propensity for developing resistance compared to classic …

Potent killing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by an antibody-antibiotic conjugate

KK Kajihara, H Pantua, H Hernandez-Barry, M Hazen… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes life-threatening infections that are associated with
antibiotic failure. Previously, we identified the antibiotic G2637, an analog of arylomycin …

Trends in therapeutic drug conjugates for bacterial diseases: a patent review

PMSD Cal, MJ Matos… - Expert opinion on …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Drug conjugates are trend topics in Chemical Biology. These entities are an
emerging class of highly potent biopharmaceutical drugs, best known in the field of …

Bifunctional antimicrobial conjugates and hybrid antimicrobials

P Klahn, M Brönstrup - Natural product reports, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the end of 2016 Novel antimicrobial drugs are continuously needed to
counteract bacterial resistance development. An innovative molecular design strategy for …

Conjugates and nano-delivery of antimicrobial peptides for enhancing therapeutic activity

M Faya, RS Kalhapure, HM Kumalo, AY Waddad… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
The current global crisis of antibiotic drug resistance is driving the search for novel treatment
approaches. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are small molecular weight proteins with varying …

Conjugation of antimicrobial peptides to enhance therapeutic efficacy

SP Selvaraj, JY Chen - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The growing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has brought with it a continual
increase in the numbers of deaths from multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections. Since the …

Macrocycle-antibiotic hybrids: A path to clinical candidates

AS Surur, D Sun - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The tale of abate in antibiotics continued defense mechanisms that chaperone the rise of
drug-defying superbugs—on the other hand, the astray in antibacterial drug discovery and …

Development of Antimicrobial Peptide–Antibiotic Conjugates to Improve the Outer Membrane Permeability of Antibiotics Against Gram-Negative Bacteria

R Yamauchi, K Kawano, Y Yamaoka… - ACS Infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Antibiotics have been widely used in the medical field as a treatment for infectious diseases,
but they are not effective against all Gram-negative bacteria because of their low …