Antibiotic discovery and resistance: the chase and the race

K Iskandar, J Murugaiyan, D Hammoudi Halat… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The history of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) evolution and the diversity of the
environmental resistome indicate that AMR is an ancient natural phenomenon. Acquired …

Targeting metalloenzymes for therapeutic intervention

AY Chen, RN Adamek, BL Dick, CV Credille… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Metalloenzymes are central to a wide range of essential biological activities, including
nucleic acid modification, protein degradation, and many others. The role of metalloenzymes …

Anthrax pathogenesis

M Moayeri, SH Leppla, C Vrentas… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Anthrax is caused by the spore-forming, gram-positive bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The
bacterium's major virulence factors are (a) the anthrax toxins and (b) an antiphagocytic …

The NLRP 1 inflammasomes

J Chavarría‐Smith, RE Vance - Immunological reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Inflammasomes are cytosolic protein complexes that serve as platforms for the recruitment
and activation of the pro‐inflammatory CASPASE‐1 protease. CASPASE‐1 activation leads …

Anthrax lethal and edema toxins in anthrax pathogenesis

S Liu, M Moayeri, SH Leppla - Trends in microbiology, 2014 - cell.com
The pathophysiological effects resulting from many bacterial diseases are caused by
exotoxins released by the bacteria. Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming bacterium, is such a …

Hijacking multivesicular bodies enables long-term and exosome-mediated long-distance action of anthrax toxin

L Abrami, L Brandi, M Moayeri, MJ Brown, BA Krantz… - Cell reports, 2013 - cell.com
Anthrax lethal toxin is a classical AB toxin comprised of two components: protective antigen
(PA) and lethal factor (LF). Here, we show that following assembly and endocytosis, PA …

ERK and c-Myc signaling in host-derived tumor endothelial cells is essential for solid tumor growth

Z Zuo, J Liu, Z Sun, YW Cheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The limited efficacy of the current antitumor microenvironment strategies is due in part to the
poor understanding of the roles and relative contributions of the various tumor stromal cells …

The ins and outs of anthrax toxin

S Friebe, FG Van der Goot, J Bürgi - Toxins, 2016 - mdpi.com
Anthrax is a severe, although rather rare, infectious disease that is caused by the Gram-
positive, spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The infectious form is the spore and the …

Synergistic action of Staphylococcus aureus α-toxin on platelets and myeloid lineage cells contributes to lethal sepsis

ME Powers, REN Becker, A Sailer, JR Turner… - Cell host & …, 2015 - cell.com
Multi-organ failure contributes to mortality in bacterial sepsis. Platelet and immune cell
activation contribute to organ injury during sepsis, but the mechanisms by which bacterial …

Anthrax toxins regulate pain signaling and can deliver molecular cargoes into ANTXR2+ DRG sensory neurons

NJ Yang, J Isensee, DV Neel, AU Quadros… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Bacterial products can act on neurons to alter signaling and function. In the present study,
we found that dorsal root ganglion (DRG) sensory neurons are enriched for ANTXR2, the …