Phenotypic drug discovery: recent successes, lessons learned and new directions

F Vincent, A Nueda, J Lee, M Schenone… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Many drugs, or their antecedents, were discovered through observation of their effects on
normal or disease physiology. For the past generation, this phenotypic drug discovery …

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 …

Computational approaches in drug designing

A Tiwari, S Singh - Bioinformatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Computational approaches are very necessary and useful resources in the process of drug
development. The goal of drug development is to identify a chemical compound that can fit …

[HTML][HTML] Pantothenate kinase: a promising therapeutic target against pathogenic Clostridium species

S Hasnat, MN Hoque, MM Mahbub, TI Sakif… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Current treatment of clostridial infections includes broad-spectrum antibiotics and antitoxins,
yet antitoxins are ineffective against all Clostridium species. Moreover, rising antimicrobial …

In vitro anti-TB properties, in silico target validation, molecular docking and dynamics studies of substituted 1, 2, 4-oxadiazole analogues against Mycobacterium …

PK Deb, NA Al-Shar'i, KN Venugopala… - Journal of enzyme …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The alarming increase in multi-and extensively drug-resistant (MDR and XDR) strains of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) has triggered the scientific community to search for …

In vitro and in silico exploration of newly synthesized triazolyl- isonicotinohydrazides as potent antitubercular agents

RD Bakale, PS Phatak, SS Rathod… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the present study, we have reported the synthesis of novel isoniazid-triazole derivatives
(4a-r), via the click chemistry approach. The synthesized isoniazid-triazole derivatives have …

Machine Learning Models for Mycobacterium tuberculosis  In Vitro Activity: Prediction and Target Visualization

TR Lane, F Urbina, L Rank, J Gerlach… - Molecular …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health challenge, with approximately 1.4 million deaths
per year. There is still a need to develop novel treatments for patients infected with …

Mycobacterial drug discovery

KA Abrahams, GS Besra - RSC Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative pathogen of the pulmonary disease
tuberculosis. Despite the availability of effective treatment programs, there is a global pursuit …

The search for novel treatment strategies for Streptococcus pneumoniae infections

F Cools, P Delputte, P Cos - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This review provides an overview of the most important novel treatment strategies against
Streptococcus pneumoniae infections published over the past 10 years. The pneumococcus …

Multitargeting compounds: a promising strategy to overcome multi-drug resistant tuberculosis

G Stelitano, JC Sammartino, LR Chiarelli - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tuberculosis is still an urgent global health problem, mainly due to the spread of multi-drug
resistant M. tuberculosis strains, which lead to the need of new more efficient drugs. A …