First-row transition metal (de) hydrogenation catalysis based on functional pincer ligands

L Alig, M Fritz, S Schneider - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The use of 3d metals in de/hydrogenation catalysis has emerged as a competitive field with
respect to “traditional” precious metal catalyzed transformations. The introduction of …

The bacterial cell wall: from lipid II flipping to polymerization

S Kumar, A Mollo, D Kahne, N Ruiz - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall is an extra-cytoplasmic glycopeptide polymeric structure
that protects bacteria from osmotic lysis and determines cellular shape. Since the cell wall …

Efflux pump mediated antimicrobial resistance by staphylococci in health-related environments: challenges and the quest for inhibition

A Dashtbani-Roozbehani, MH Brown - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The increasing emergence of antimicrobial resistance in staphylococcal bacteria is a major
health threat worldwide due to significant morbidity and mortality resulting from their …

β-Lactams against the Fortress of the Gram-Positive Staphylococcus aureus Bacterium

JF Fisher, S Mobashery - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The biological diversity of the unicellular bacteria—whether assessed by shape, food,
metabolism, or ecological niche—surely rivals (if not exceeds) that of the multicellular …

Evolutionary dynamics of natural product biosynthesis in bacteria

MG Chevrette, K Gutiérrez-García… - Natural product …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2008 up to 2019 The forces of biochemical adaptive evolution operate at the level
of genes, manifesting in complex phenotypes and the global biodiversity of proteins and …

Antibiotic resistance and the alternatives to conventional antibiotics: The role of probiotics and microbiota in combating antimicrobial resistance

S Aghamohammad, M Rohani - Microbiological Research, 2023 - Elsevier
From the introduction of the first antibiotic to the present day, the emergence of antibiotic
resistance has been a difficult problem for medicine. Regardless of the type of antibiotic …

Antibiotics and bacterial resistance—a short story of an endless arms race

A Baran, A Kwiatkowska, L Potocki - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite the undisputed development of medicine, antibiotics still serve as first-choice drugs
for patients with infectious disorders. The widespread use of antibiotics results from a wide …

h-BN nanosheets doped with transition metals for environmental remediation; a DFT approach and molecular docking analysis

J Hassan, S Naz, A Haider, A Raza, A Ul-Hamid… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study compares the catalytic and antimicrobial potential of BN nanosheets doped with
various transition metals-TMs (Co, Cu, Ni, Zr, and Bi). Evaluation of catalytic activity …

Battle against vancomycin-resistant bacteria: recent developments in chemical strategies

G Dhanda, P Sarkar, S Samaddar… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Vancomycin, a natural glycopeptide antibiotic, was used as the antibiotic of last resort for the
treatment of multidrug-resistant Gram-positive bacterial infections. However, almost 30 years …

Terpenes as bacterial efflux pump inhibitors: A systematic review

KJSDO Dias, GM Miranda, JR Bessa… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Managing antibiotic resistance is a significant challenge in modern pharmacotherapy. While
molecular analyses have identified efflux pump expression as an essential mechanism …