Cell wall: A versatile fountain of drug targets in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

ZS Bhat, MA Rather, M Maqbool, HUL Lah… - Biomedicine & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis is the leading infectious disease responsible for an estimated one and a half
million human deaths each year around the globe. HIV-TB coinfection and rapid increase in …

Mycobacterial cell wall: a source of successful targets for old and new drugs

C Vilchèze - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Eighty years after the introduction of the first antituberculosis (TB) drug, the treatment of drug-
susceptible TB remains very cumbersome, requiring the use of four drugs (isoniazid …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotics and resistance: the two-sided coin of the mycobacterial cell wall

SM Batt, CE Burke, AR Moorey, GS Besra - The Cell Surface, 2020 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis, is the global
leading cause of mortality from an infectious agent. Part of this success relies on the unique …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis metabolism

DF Warner - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2015 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Metabolism underpins the physiology and pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
However, although experimental mycobacteriology has provided key insights into the …

Unified and Isomer-Specific NMR Metabolomics Database for the Accurate Analysis of 13C–1H HSQC Spectra

K Bingol, DW Li, L Bruschweiler-Li… - ACS chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A new metabolomics database and query algorithm for the analysis of 13C–1H HSQC
spectra is introduced, which unifies NMR spectroscopic information on 555 metabolites from …

Untargeted metabolomics to ascertain antibiotic modes of action

IM Vincent, DE Ehmann, SD Mills… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Deciphering the mode of action (MOA) of new antibiotics discovered through phenotypic
screening is of increasing importance. Metabolomics offers a potentially rapid and cost …

Multidimensional NMR approaches towards highly resolved, sensitive and high-throughput quantitative metabolomics

J Marchand, E Martineau, Y Guitton… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Multidimensional NMR is a powerful tool for complex samples in metabolomics.•
Tailored 2D NMR strategies enable the accurate quantification of metabolites.•Fast 2D NMR …

Mining the cellular inventory of pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes with functionalized cofactor mimics

A Hoegl, MB Nodwell, VC Kirsch, NC Bach… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) is an enzyme cofactor required for the chemical transformation of
biological amines in many central cellular processes. PLP-dependent enzymes (PLP-DEs) …

Flavonoids: A treasure house of prospective pharmacological potentials

H Hasnat, SA Shompa, MM Islam, S Alam, FT Richi… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Flavonoids are organic compounds characterized by a range of phenolic structures, which
are abundantly present in various natural sources such as fruits, vegetables, cereals, bark …

Identification of novel mutations associated with cycloserine resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

J Chen, S Zhang, P Cui, W Shi… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Objectives d-Cycloserine is an important second-line drug used to treat MDR-and XDR-TB.
However, the mechanisms of resistance to d-cycloserine are not well understood. Here we …