Interdisciplinary‐inspired smart antibacterial materials and their biomedical applications

Y Wu, P Liu, B Mehrjou, PK Chu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of antibiotics has saved millions of lives, but the emergence of antibiotic‐
resistant bacteria has become another problem in modern medicine. To avoid or reduce the …

Zinc complexes with nitrogen donor ligands as anticancer agents

M Porchia, M Pellei, F Del Bello, C Santini - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The search for anticancer metal-based drugs alternative to platinum derivatives could not
exclude zinc derivatives due to the importance of this metal for the correct functioning of the …

Emerging themes and therapeutic prospects for anti-infective peptides

NY Yount, MR Yeaman - Annual review of pharmacology and …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Pathogens resistant to most conventional anti-infectives are a harbinger of the need to
discover and develop novel anti-infective agents and strategies. Endogenous host defense …

Hyaluronic acid-based nanogels produced by microfluidics-facilitated self-assembly improves the safety profile of the cationic host defense peptide novicidin

JJ Water, YT Kim, MJ Maltesen, H Franzyk… - Pharmaceutical …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Cationic host defence peptides constitute a promising class of therapeutic drug
leads with a wide range of therapeutic applications, including anticancer therapy …

Peptide-carbon quantum dots conjugate, derived from human retinoic acid receptor responder protein 2, against antibiotic-resistant gram positive and gram negative …

A Mazumdar, Y Haddad, V Milosavljevic, H Michalkova… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections have become global issues for public health, which
increases the utter need to develop alternatives to antibiotics. Here, the HSER (Homo …

Drug development concerning metallo-β-lactamases in gram-negative bacteria

X Li, J Zhao, B Zhang, X Duan, J Jiao, W Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
β-Lactams have been a clinical focus since their emergence and indeed act as a powerful
tool to combat severe bacterial infections, but their effectiveness is threatened by drug …

Antimicrobial Peptide Novicidin Synergizes with Rifampin, Ceftriaxone, and Ceftazidime against Antibiotic-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae In Vitro

O Soren, KS Brinch, D Patel, Y Liu, A Liu… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The spread of antibiotic resistance among Gram-negative bacteria is a serious clinical
threat, and infections with these organisms are a leading cause of mortality worldwide …

Binding of albumin promotes bacterial survival at the epithelial surface

A Egesten, IM Frick, M Mörgelin, AI Olin… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Human serum albumin (HSA) is the dominating protein in human plasma. Many bacterial
species, especially streptococci, express surface proteins that bind HSA with high specificity …

Ribosomally synthesized peptides from natural sources

N Singh, J Abraham - The Journal of antibiotics, 2014 - nature.com
There are many antibiotic-resistant microbial pathogens that have emerged in recent years
causing normal infections to become harder and sometimes impossible to treat. The major …

Monte Carlo simulations of peptide–membrane interactions with the MCPep web server

Y Gofman, T Haliloglu, N Ben-Tal - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The MCPep server (http://bental. tau. ac. il/MCPep/) is designed for non-experts
wishing to perform Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of helical peptides in association with lipid …