[HTML][HTML] Innovative Strategies in Drug Repurposing to Tackle Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens

B Lorente-Torres, J Llano-Verdeja, P Castañera… - Antibiotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Intracellular bacterial pathogens pose significant public health challenges due to their ability
to evade immune defenses and conventional antibiotics. Drug repurposing has recently …

Overcoming Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Resistance: Novel Medications and Repositioning Strategies

RSK Sachan, V Mistry, M Dholaria, A Rana… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis, is a global health
concern, affecting millions worldwide. This bacterium has earned a reputation as a …

Ammvf-dti: A novel model predicting drug–target interactions based on attention mechanism and multi-view fusion

L Wang, Y Zhou, Q Chen - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Accurate identification of potential drug–target interactions (DTIs) is a crucial task in drug
development and repositioning. Despite the remarkable progress achieved in recent years …

Design, synthesis, antimicrobial evaluation, and molecular modeling of new sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim analogs as potential DHPS/DHFR inhibitors

LMAA Ghany, N Ryad, MS Abdel-Aziz… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Trimethoprim (TMP) and sulfonamides and are typically utilized to hinder the activities of
dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) and dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) enzymes …

Repurposing Azoles to Resolve Serotogenic Toxicity Associated with Linezolid to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

RT Girase, I Ahmad, JM Oh, H Kim… - ACS Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Serotogenic toxicity is a major hurdle associated with Linezolid in the treatment of drug-
resistant tuberculosis (TB) due to the inhibition of monoamine oxidase (MAO) enzymes …

Decoding drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: genetic insights and future challenges

A Deshpande, R Likhar, T Khan… - Expert Review of Anti …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Tuberculosis (TB), particularly its drug-resistant forms (MDR-TB and XDR-TB),
continues to pose a significant global health challenge. Despite advances in treatment and …

The structure of Mycobacterium thermoresistibile MmpS5 reveals a conserved disulfide bond across mycobacteria

BJ Cuthbert, J Mendoza, R de Miranda… - Metallomics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The tuberculosis (TB) emergency has been a pressing health threat for decades. With the
emergence of drug-resistant TB and complications from the COVID-19 pandemic, the TB …

Computational analysis of RNA methyltransferase Rv3366 as a potential drug target for combating drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

T Nazim, V Kumar, F Ahmed, NZ Ehtesham… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) remains a formidable global health threat. The
increasing drug resistance among M. tb clinical isolates is exacerbating the current …

Repurposing of anti-malarial drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis: realistic strategy or fanciful dead end?

T Hanscheid, CR del Portal Luyten, SM Hermans… - Malaria journal, 2024 - Springer
Background Drug repurposing offers a strategic alternative to the development of novel
compounds, leveraging the known safety and pharmacokinetic profiles of medications, such …

A Comparative Pharmacokinetics Study of Orally and Intranasally Administered 8-Nitro-1, 3-benzothiazin-4-one (BTZ043) Amorphous Drug Nanoparticles

F Li, F Marwitz, D Rudolph, W Gauda… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
BTZ043 is an 8-nitro-1, 3-benzothiazin-4-one with potency against multidrug-resistant
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Low solubility and hepatic metabolism are linked to poor oral …