Fighting antibiotic resistance—strategies and (pre) clinical developments to find new antibacterials

S Walesch, J Birkelbach, G Jézéquel, FPJ Haeckl… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Antibacterial resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health. The development of
new therapeutics against bacterial pathogens has slowed drastically since the approvals of …

Sophisticated natural products as antibiotics

K Lewis, RE Lee, H Brötz-Oesterhelt, S Hiller… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
In this Review, we explore natural product antibiotics that do more than simply inhibit an
active site of an essential enzyme. We review these compounds to provide inspiration for the …

Unrealized targets in the discovery of antibiotics for gram-negative bacterial infections

U Theuretzbacher, B Blasco, M Duffey… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in areas that include genomics, systems biology, protein structure determination
and artificial intelligence provide new opportunities for target-based antibacterial drug …

Substrate-controlled catalysis in the ether cross-link-forming radical SAM enzymes

S Ma, W Xi, S Wang, H Chen, S Guo, T Mo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Darobactin is a heptapeptide antibiotic featuring an ether cross-link and a C–C cross-link,
and both cross-links are installed by a radical S-adenosylmethionine (rSAM) enzyme DarE …

Design and synthesis of novel antimicrobial agents

Z Breijyeh, R Karaman - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The necessity for the discovery of innovative antimicrobials to treat life-threatening diseases
has increased as multidrug-resistant bacteria has spread. Due to antibiotics' availability over …

A review of antibacterial candidates with new modes of action

MS Butler, W Vollmer, ECA Goodall… - ACS Infectious …, 2024 - ACS Publications
There is a lack of new antibiotics to combat drug-resistant bacterial infections that
increasingly threaten global health. The current pipeline of clinical-stage antimicrobials is …

Metabolome-guided genome mining of RiPP natural products

MM Zdouc, JJJ van der Hooft, MH Medema - Trends in Pharmacological …, 2023 - cell.com
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a
chemically diverse class of metabolites. Many RiPPs show potent biological activities that …

Darobactin B Stabilises a Lateral‐Closed Conformation of the BAM Complex in E. coli Cells

SF Haysom, J Machin, JM Whitehouse… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The β‐barrel assembly machinery (BAM complex) is essential for outer membrane protein
(OMP) folding in Gram‐negative bacteria, and represents a promising antimicrobial target …

Bacterial cyclophane-containing RiPPs from radical SAM enzymes

CS Phan, BI Morinaka - Natural Product Reports, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2016 to 2023 Ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides
(RiPPs) continue to be a rich source of chemically diverse and bioactive peptide natural …

Exploring nature's battlefield: organismic interactions in the discovery of bioactive natural products

Y Wang, YN Shi, H Xiang, YM Shi - Natural Product Reports, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to March 2024. Microbial natural products have historically been a cornerstone
for the discovery of therapeutic agents. Advanced (meta) genome sequencing technologies …