Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell-wall and antimicrobial peptides: a mission impossible?

YM Jacobo-Delgado, A Rodríguez-Carlos… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is one of the most important infectious agents worldwide
and causes more than 1.5 million deaths annually. To make matters worse, the drug …

Photo-induced radical thiol–ene chemistry: a versatile toolbox for peptide-based drug design

M Ahangarpour, I Kavianinia, PWR Harris… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
While the global market for peptide/protein-based therapeutics is witnessing significant
growth, the development of peptide drugs remains challenging due to their low oral …

The cyclic peptide ecumicin targeting ClpC1 is active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vivo

W Gao, JY Kim, JR Anderson, T Akopian… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) has lent urgency to finding new drug leads with novel
modes of action. A high-throughput screening campaign of> 65,000 actinomycete extracts …

[HTML][HTML] New tuberculosis drug leads from naturally occurring compounds

D Quan, G Nagalingam, R Payne, JA Triccas - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide.
An estimated 2 billion individuals are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and annually …

Strategies in anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug discovery based on phenotypic screening

EM Grzelak, MP Choules, W Gao, G Cai, B Wan… - The Journal of …, 2019 - nature.com
The rise of multi-and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) strains
and co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus has escalated the need for new anti-M …

Conformational control of the bacterial Clp protease by natural product antibiotics

IT Malik, H Brötz-Oesterhelt - Natural product reports, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2017 The bacterial Clp protease is a highly conserved and structurally
versatile machine. It has gained a lot of recognition during the last decade as a novel …

Acyldepsipeptide antibiotics kill mycobacteria by preventing the physiological functions of the ClpP1P2 protease

K Famulla, P Sass, I Malik, T Akopian… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Clp protease complex in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is unusual in its composition,
functional importance and activation mechanism. Whilst most bacterial species contain a …

Recent advances in polypeptide antibiotics derived from marine microorganisms

W Wang, L Gu, J Wang, X Hu, B Wei, H Zhang, H Wang… - Marine Drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the post-antibiotic era, the rapid development of antibiotic resistance and the shortage of
available antibiotics are triggering a new health-care crisis. The discovery of novel and …

High-resolution structure of ClpC1-rufomycin and ligand binding studies provide a framework to design and optimize anti-tuberculosis leads

NM Wolf, H Lee, MP Choules, GF Pauli… - ACS infectious …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Addressing the urgent need to develop novel drugs against drug-resistant Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (M. tb) strains, ecumicin (ECU) and rufomycin I (RUFI) are being explored as …

Nyuzenamide C, an Antiangiogenic Epoxy Cinnamic Acid-Containing Bicyclic Peptide from a Riverine Streptomyces sp.

JS An, MS Kim, J Han, SC Jang, JH Im… - Journal of Natural …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A new nonribosomal peptide, nyuzenamide C (1), was discovered from riverine sediment-
derived Streptomyces sp. DM14. Comprehensive analysis of the spectroscopic data of …