Arylamine N‐acetyltransferases: from drug metabolism and pharmacogenetics to drug discovery

E Sim, A Abuhammad, A Ryan - British Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Arylamine N‐acetyltransferases (NAT s) are polymorphic drug‐metabolizing enzymes,
acetylating arylamine carcinogens and drugs including hydralazine and sulphonamides …

Cholesterol metabolism: a potential therapeutic target in Mycobacteria

A Abuhammad - British journal of pharmacology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB), although a curable disease, is still one of the most difficult infections to
treat. Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects 10 million people worldwide and kills 1.5 million …

Microseed matrix screening for optimization in protein crystallization: what have we learned?

A D'Arcy, T Bergfors, SW Cowan-Jacob… - … Section F: Structural …, 2014 - journals.iucr.org
Protein crystals obtained in initial screens typically require optimization before they are of X-
ray diffraction quality. Seeding is one such optimization method. In classical seeding …

Fusarium verticillioides NAT1 (FDB2) N‐malonyltransferase is structurally, functionally and phylogenetically distinct from its N‐acetyltransferase (NAT) homologues

EP Karagianni, E Kontomina, ED Lowe… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fusarium endophytes damage cereal crops and contaminate produce with mycotoxins.
Those fungi overcome the main chemical defence of host via detoxification by a malonyl …

A Microbiological, Toxicological, and Biochemical Study of the Effects of Fucoxanthin, a Marine Carotenoid, on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Enzymes …

M Šudomová, MA Shariati, J Echeverría… - Marine drugs, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study explored the antitubercular properties of fucoxanthin, a marine carotenoid,
against clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Two vital enzymes involved in …

Comparative Investigation of 15 Xenobiotic-Metabolizing N-Acetyltransferase (NAT) Homologs from Bacteria

V Garefalaki, MG Papavergi, O Savvidou… - Applied and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Arylamines constitute a large group of industrial chemicals detoxified by certain bacteria
through conjugation reactions catalyzed by N-acetyltransferase (NAT) enzymes. NAT …

X-ray transparent microfluidic platforms for membrane protein crystallization with microseeds

JM Schieferstein, AS Pawate, MJ Varel, S Guha… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Crystallization of membrane proteins is a critical step for uncovering atomic resolution 3-D
structures and elucidating structure–function relationships. Microseeding, the process of …

Exploration of 5‐(5‐nitrothiophen‐2‐yl)‐4, 5‐dihydro‐1H‐pyrazoles as selective, multitargeted antimycobacterial agents

N Agre, M Khambete, A Maitra, A Gupta… - Chemical Biology & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We report the biological evaluation of 5‐(5‐nitrothiophen‐2‐yl)‐4, 5‐dihydro‐1H‐pyrazole
derivatives against bacteria, eukaryotic cell lines and the assessment of their mechanisms of …

Differences between murine arylamine N-acetyltransferase type 1 and human arylamine N-acetyltransferase type 2 defined by substrate specificity and inhibitor …

N Laurieri, A Kawamura, IM Westwood… - BMC Pharmacology and …, 2014 - Springer
Background The mouse has three arylamine N-acetyltransferase genes,(MOUSE)
Nat1,(MOUSE) Nat2 and (MOUSE) Nat3. These are believed to correspond to (HUMAN) …

Dynamic microfluidic single-cell screening identifies pheno-tuning compounds to potentiate tuberculosis therapy

M Mistretta, M Cimino, P Campagne, S Volant… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Drug-recalcitrant infections are a leading global-health concern. Bacterial cells benefit from
phenotypic variation, which can suggest effective antimicrobial strategies. However, probing …