Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, drug resistance mechanisms, and therapy of infections with nontuberculous mycobacteria

BA Brown-Elliott, KA Nash… - Clinical microbiology …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Within the past 10 years, treatment and diagnostic guidelines for nontuberculous
mycobacteria have been recommended by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the …

Exploiting bacterial DNA gyrase as a drug target: current state and perspectives

F Collin, S Karkare, A Maxwell - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2011 - Springer
DNA gyrase is a type II topoisomerase that can introduce negative supercoils into DNA at
the expense of ATP hydrolysis. It is essential in all bacteria but absent from higher …

A fast and agnostic method for bacterial genome-wide association studies: Bridging the gap between k-mers and genetic events

M Jaillard, L Lima, M Tournoud, P Mahé… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) methods applied to bacterial genomes have
shown promising results for genetic marker discovery or detailed assessment of marker …

Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

GD Wright - Chemical communications, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade, resistance to antibiotics has emerged as a crisis of global proportion.
Microbes resistant to many and even all clinically approved antibiotics are increasingly …

DNA topoisomerases

NG Bush, K Evans-Roberts, A Maxwell - EcoSal Plus, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
DNA topoisomerases are enzymes that control the topology of DNA in all cells. There are
two types, I and II, classified according to whether they make transient single-or double …

Crystal structure and stability of gyrase–fluoroquinolone cleaved complexes from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

TR Blower, BH Williamson… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infects one-third of the world's population and in 2013
accounted for 1.5 million deaths. Fluoroquinolone antibacterials, which target DNA gyrase …

A systematic review of gyrase mutations associated with fluoroquinolone-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a proposed gyrase numbering system

F Maruri, TR Sterling, AW Kaiga… - Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Fluoroquinolone resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis has become increasingly
important. A review of mutations in DNA gyrase, the fluoroquinolone target, is needed to …

New Insights into Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Functional Genetic Analysis of gyrA and gyrB Mutations

S Malik, M Willby, D Sikes, OV Tsodikov, JE Posey - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are among the most potent second-line drugs used for treatment
of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), and resistance to this class of antibiotics is one …

In-silico molecular docking and ADME/pharmacokinetic prediction studies of some novel carboxamide derivatives as anti-tubercular agents

M Abdullahi, SE Adeniji - Chemistry Africa, 2020 - Springer
Molecular docking simulation of thirty-five (35) molecules of N-(2-phenoxy) ethyl imidazo [1,
2-a] pyridine-3-carboxamide (IPA) with Mycobacterium tuberculosis target (DNA gyrase) was …

Recent advances and challenges of revolutionizing drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment

X Wei, L Yue, B Zhao, N Jiang, H Lei, X Zhai - European journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease induced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of
the primary public health threats all over the world. Since the prevalence of first-line anti-TB …