Targeting RNA with small molecules

JR Thomas, PJ Hergenrother - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
The recently discovered functions of RNA dramatically expand the cellular roles for this
macromolecule. RNA can no longer be viewed as a passive element, working simply as an …

Ecology and evolution as targets: the need for novel eco-evo drugs and strategies to fight antibiotic resistance

F Baquero, TM Coque… - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
In recent years, the explosive spread of antibiotic resistance determinants among
pathogenic, commensal, and environmental bacteria has reached a global dimension …

Inforna 2.0: a platform for the sequence-based design of small molecules targeting structured RNAs

MD Disney, AM Winkelsas, SP Velagapudi… - ACS chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The development of small molecules that target RNA is challenging yet, if successful, could
advance the development of chemical probes to study RNA function or precision …

19F NMR applications in chemical biology

SL Cobb, CD Murphy - Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Although fluorine plays only a minor role in biology, its physicochemical properties have
proven incredibly useful in the design of analogues of biologically important molecules …

Size-specific ligands for RNA hairpin loops

JR Thomas, X Liu, PJ Hergenrother - Journal of the American …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The targeting of one mRNA in the transcriptome requires small molecules that bind with
substantial affinity and specificity. As such, compounds with specificity for individual RNA …

Genetic Linkage and Horizontal Gene Transfer, the Roots of the Antibiotic Multi-Resistance Problem

AO Summers - Animal biotechnology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Bacteria carrying resistance genes for many antibiotics are moving beyond the clinic into the
community, infecting otherwise healthy people with untreatable and frequently fatal …

Plasmid interference for curing antibiotic resistance plasmids in vivo

M Kamruzzaman, S Shoma, CM Thomas… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Antibiotic resistance increases the likelihood of death from infection by common pathogens
such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in developed and developing countries …

A small molecule microarray platform to select RNA internal loop− ligand interactions

JL Childs-Disney, M Wu, A Pushechnikov… - ACS chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report the development of a microarray platform to select RNA motif− ligand
interactions that allows simultaneous screening of both RNA and chemical space. We used …

Exposing plasmids as the Achilles' heel of drug-resistant bacteria

JJ Williams, PJ Hergenrother - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Many multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens harbor large plasmids that encode proteins
conferring resistance to antibiotics. Although the acquisition of these plasmids often enables …

Strategies for the design of RNA-binding small molecules

F Aboul-ela - Future medicinal chemistry, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Bacterial ribosomal RNA is the target of clinically important antibiotics, while biologically
important RNAs in viral and eukaryotic genomes present a range of potential drug targets …