Targeting the gut microbiota for cancer therapy

MR Fernandes, P Aggarwal, RGF Costa… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Growing evidence suggests that the gut microbiota modulates the efficacy and toxicity of
cancer therapy, most notably immunotherapy and its immune-related adverse effects. The …

New modalities for challenging targets in drug discovery

E Valeur, SM Guéret, H Adihou… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Our ever‐increasing understanding of biological systems is providing a range of exciting
novel biological targets, whose modulation may enable novel therapeutic options for many …

Therapeutic targeting of non-coding RNAs in cancer

O Slaby, R Laga, O Sedlacek - Biochemical journal, 2017 - portlandpress.com
The majority of the human genome encodes RNAs that do not code for proteins. These non-
coding RNAs (ncRNAs) affect normal expression of the genes, including oncogenes and …

[HTML][HTML] Current landscape in the discovery of novel antibacterial agents

J Vila, J Moreno-Morales… - Clinical Microbiology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Standard treatments against bacterial infections are becoming ineffective due to
the rise of antibacterial resistance worldwide. Classical approaches to develop new …

[HTML][HTML] Chemistry of peptide-oligonucleotide conjugates: a review

K Klabenkova, A Fokina, D Stetsenko - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Peptide-oligonucleotide conjugates (POCs) represent one of the increasingly successful
albeit costly approaches to increasing the cellular uptake, tissue delivery, bioavailability …

Antimicrobial peptides immune modulation role in intracellular bacterial infection

DI Duarte-Mata, MC Salinas-Carmona - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Intracellular bacteria cause a wide range of diseases, and their intracellular lifestyle makes
infections difficult to resolve. Furthermore, standard therapy antibiotics are often unable to …

Nanomaterials and molecular transporters to overcome the bacterial envelope barrier: Towards advanced delivery of antibiotics

RS Santos, C Figueiredo, NF Azevedo… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
With the dramatic consequences of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, nanomaterials and
molecular transporters have started to be investigated as alternative antibacterials or anti …

Antimicrobial peptides and cell-penetrating peptides for treating intracellular bacterial infections

DF Buccini, MH Cardoso, OL Franco - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial infections caused by intracellular pathogens are difficult to control. Conventional
antibiotic therapies are often ineffective, as high doses are needed to increase the number …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical approaches to discover the full potential of peptide nucleic acids in biomedical applications

N Brodyagin, M Katkevics, V Kotikam… - Beilstein journal of …, 2021 - beilstein-journals.org
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is arguably one of the most successful DNA mimics, despite a
most dramatic departure from the native structure of DNA. The present review summarizes …

Antisense antimicrobial therapeutics

EK Sully, BL Geller - Current opinion in microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•A LNA–DNA hybrid oligomer (miravirsen) is targeted to a host micro RNA instead
of the pathogen (hepatitis C virus)•Miravirsen demonstrates broad antiviral activity against …