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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibitors targeting BamA in gram-negative bacteria

KM Storek, D Sun, ST Rutherford - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2024 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance has led to an increase in the number of patient hospitalizations and
deaths. The situation for gram-negative bacteria is especially dire as the last new class of …

β-Barrel Assembly Machinery (BAM) Complex as Novel Antibacterial Drug Target

Q Xu, M Guo, F Yu - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is closely related to the pathogenicity and
drug resistance of bacteria. Outer membrane proteins (OMPs) are a class of proteins with …

[HTML][HTML] Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Measurements in Living Bacteria for Interaction Studies of BamA with BamD and Inhibitor Identification

S Schreiber, J Jose - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
The β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) is a multimeric protein complex responsible for the
folding of outer membrane proteins in gram-negative bacteria. It is essential for cell survival …

ATP‐independent assembly machinery of bacterial outer membranes: BAM complex structure and function set the stage for next‐generation therapeutics

A George, AG Patil, R Mahalakshmi - Protein Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Diderm bacteria employ β‐barrel outer membrane proteins (OMPs) as their first line of
communication with their environment. These OMPs are assembled efficiently in the …

Chemical genetic approaches for the discovery of bacterial cell wall inhibitors

R Gupta, M Singh, R Pathania - RSC Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacterial pathogens is a worldwide health issue. The
innovation gap in discovering new antibiotics has remained a significant hurdle in …

Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance: Innovative Drugs in Antibacterial Research

R Süssmuth, MD Kulike-Koczula, P Gao… - Angewandte Chemie - Wiley Online Library
In the fight against bacterial infections, particularly those caused by multi‐resistant
pathogens, the need for new antibacterials is undoubted in scientific communities. and is by …