Overcoming intrinsic and acquired resistance mechanisms associated with the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria

RE Impey, DA Hawkins, JM Sutton… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The global increase in multi-drug-resistant bacteria is severely impacting our ability to
effectively treat common infections. For Gram-negative bacteria, their intrinsic and acquired …

[HTML][HTML] Functional characterization of prokaryotic dark matter: the road so far and what lies ahead

P Escudeiro, CS Henry, RPM Dias - Current Research in Microbial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Eight-hundred thousand to one trillion prokaryotic species may inhabit our planet. Yet, fewer
than two-hundred thousand prokaryotic species have been described. This uncharted …

Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of 2, 4-thiazolidinediones and analogous heterocycles as inhibitors of dihydrodipicolinate synthase

RM Christoff, TPS da Costa, S Bayat, JK Holien… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHDPS), responsible for the first committed step of the
diaminopimelate pathway for lysine biosynthesis, has become an attractive target for the …

Experimental investigation of enzyme functional annotations reveals extensive annotation error

E Rembeza, MKM Engqvist - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Only a small fraction of genes deposited to databases has been experimentally
characterised. The majority of proteins have their function assigned automatically, which can …

Enhancement of Edwardsiella piscicida infection, biofilm formation, and motility caused by N-acetylneuraminate lyase

LK Vo, NT Tran, Y Kubo, D Sahashi, M Komatsu… - Glycoconjugate …, 2022 - Springer
Sialic acid and its catabolism are involved in bacterial pathogenicity. N-acetylneuraminate
lyase (NAL), which catalyzes the reversible aldol cleavage of sialic acid to form N-acetyl-D …

The First Inhibitor of Meso-Diaminopimelate Biosynthesis with Antibacterial Activity Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

TP Soares da Costa, JA Wyllie, CK Ghardi, MD Hulett… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Antibiotic resistance represents one of the biggest threats to global health. While several of
our current antibiotics target the peptidoglycan within the bacterial cell wall, only a fraction of …