Different drugs for bad bugs: antivirulence strategies in the age of antibiotic resistance

SW Dickey, GYC Cheung, M Otto - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2017 - nature.com
The rapid evolution and dissemination of antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens
are outpacing the development of new antibiotics, but antivirulence agents provide an …

Plant polyphenols as antioxidant and antibacterial agents for shelf‐life extension of meat and meat products: Classification, structures, sources, and action …

C Papuc, GV Goran, CN Predescu… - … Reviews in Food …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidative processes and meat spoilage bacteria are major contributors to decreasing the
shelf‐life of meat and meat products. Oxidative processes occur during processing, storage …

Iron homeostasis in host defence and inflammation

T Ganz, E Nemeth - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
Iron is an essential trace element for multicellular organisms and nearly all microorganisms.
Although iron is abundant in the environment, common forms of iron are minimally soluble …

Gallium disrupts bacterial iron metabolism and has therapeutic effects in mice and humans with lung infections

CH Goss, Y Kaneko, L Khuu, GD Anderson… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
The lack of new antibiotics is among the most critical challenges facing medicine. The
problem is particularly acute for Gram-negative bacteria. An unconventional antibiotic …

8-Hydroxyquinolines in medicinal chemistry: A structural perspective

V Oliveri, G Vecchio - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Hydroxyquinolines are heterocyclic compounds characterized by a moderate metal-binding
affinity. The interest in 8-hydroxyquinolines has grown exponentially in the last two decades …

Clinical and pathophysiological overview of Acinetobacter infections: a century of challenges

D Wong, TB Nielsen, RA Bonomo… - Clinical microbiology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter is a complex genus, and historically, there has been confusion about the
existence of multiple species. The species commonly cause nosocomial infections …

Unravelling the Genome-Wide Contributions of Specific 2-Alkyl-4-Quinolones and PqsE to Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

G Rampioni, M Falcone, S Heeb, E Frangipani… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The pqs quorum sensing (QS) system is crucial for Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence both
in vitro and in animal models of infection and is considered an ideal target for the …

Antimicrobial activity of gallium compounds on ESKAPE pathogens

S Hijazi, D Visaggio, M Pirolo, E Frangipani… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
ESKAPE bacteria are a major cause of multidrug-resistant infections, and new drugs are
urgently needed to combat these pathogens. Given the importance of iron in bacterial …

Genetics, epidemiology, and clinical manifestations of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

P Nasr - Journal of Hospital Infection, 2020 - Elsevier
Acinetobacter baumannii infections have become an emerging health concern in hospitals
across the world and are often associated with nosocomial infections with poorer clinical …

Acute iron deprivation reprograms human macrophage metabolism and reduces inflammation in vivo

M Pereira, TD Chen, N Buang, A Olona, JH Ko… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Iron is an essential metal that fine-tunes the innate immune response by regulating
macrophage function, but an integrative view of transcriptional and metabolic responses to …