A new era of antibiotics: the clinical potential of antimicrobial peptides

K Browne, S Chakraborty, R Chen… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance is a multifaceted crisis, imposing a serious threat to global health.
The traditional antibiotic pipeline has been exhausted, prompting research into alternate …

Development and challenges of antimicrobial peptides for therapeutic applications

CH Chen, TK Lu - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
More than 3000 antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been discovered, seven of which have
been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Now commercialized, these …

Natural products: A lead for drug discovery and development

B Chopra, AK Dhingra - Phytotherapy Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Natural products are used since ancient times in folklore for the treatment of various
ailments. Plant‐derived products have been recognized for many years as a source of …

Antibiotic resistance and the MRSA problem

M Vestergaard, D Frees, H Ingmer - Microbiology spectrum, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Staphylococcus aureus is capable of becoming resistant to all classes of antibiotics clinically
available and resistance can develop through de novo mutations in chromosomal genes or …

Antibiotic hybrids: the next generation of agents and adjuvants against Gram-negative pathogens?

R Domalaon, T Idowu, GG Zhanel… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The global incidence of drug-resistant Gram-negative bacillary infections has been
increasing, and there is a dire need to develop novel strategies to overcome this problem …

[HTML][HTML] The modification of natural products for medical use

Z Guo - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2017 - Elsevier
Drug innovation is characterized by painstaking molecular-level syntheses and
modifications as the basic components of research and development. Similarly, natural …

Natural products: an evolving role in future drug discovery

BB Mishra, VK Tiwari - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
The therapeutic areas of infectious diseases and oncology have benefited from abundant
scaffold diversity in natural products, able to interact with many specific targets within the cell …

Developments in glycopeptide antibiotics

MAT Blaskovich, KA Hansford, MS Butler… - ACS Infectious …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) are a key weapon in the fight against drug resistant
bacteria, with vancomycin still a mainstream therapy against serious Gram-positive …

Mannich bases in medicinal chemistry and drug design

G Roman - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
The biological activity of Mannich bases, a structurally heterogeneous class of chemical
compounds that are generated from various substrates through the introduction of an …

Multitarget approaches against multiresistant superbugs

DA Gray, M Wenzel - ACS Infectious Diseases, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite efforts to develop new antibiotics, antibacterial resistance still develops too fast for
drug discovery to keep pace. Often, resistance against a new drug develops even before it …