Antibacterial drug discovery in the resistance era

ED Brown, GD Wright - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The looming antibiotic-resistance crisis has penetrated the consciousness of clinicians,
researchers, policymakers, politicians and the public at large. The evolution and widespread …

Drug repurposing for antimicrobial discovery

MA Farha, ED Brown - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance continues to be a public threat on a global scale. The ongoing need
to develop new antimicrobial drugs that are effective against multi-drug-resistant pathogens …

[HTML][HTML] A deep learning approach to antibiotic discovery

JM Stokes, K Yang, K Swanson, W Jin, A Cubillos-Ruiz… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Due to the rapid emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, there is a growing need to
discover new antibiotics. To address this challenge, we trained a deep neural network …

Opportunities for natural products in 21 st century antibiotic discovery

GD Wright - Natural product reports, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural products and their derivatives are mainstays of our antibiotic drugs, but they are
increasingly in peril. The combination of widespread multidrug resistance in once …

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 …

Predictive validity in drug discovery: what it is, why it matters and how to improve it

JW Scannell, J Bosley, JA Hickman… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Successful drug discovery is like finding oases of safety and efficacy in chemical and
biological deserts. Screens in disease models, and other decision tools used in drug …

Antibiotic discovery in the artificial intelligence era

T Lluka, JM Stokes - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As the global burden of antibiotic resistance continues to grow, creative approaches to
antibiotic discovery are needed to accelerate the development of novel medicines. A rapidly …

Strategies for target identification of antimicrobial natural products

MA Farha, ED Brown - Natural product reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 to 2015 Despite a pervasive decline in natural product research at many
pharmaceutical companies over the last two decades, natural products have undeniably …

Thinking outside the box—novel antibacterials to tackle the resistance crisis

M Lakemeyer, W Zhao, FA Mandl… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The public view on antibiotics as reliable medicines changed when reports about “resistant
superbugs” appeared in the news. While reasons for this resistance development are easily …

Brief overview of approaches and challenges in new antibiotic development: a focus on drug repurposing

NK Boyd, C Teng, CR Frei - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Drug repurposing, or identifying new uses for existing drugs, has emerged as an alternative
to traditional drug discovery processes involving de novo synthesis. Drugs that are currently …