New carbapenemase inhibitors: clearing the way for the β-lactams

JC Vázquez-Ucha, J Arca-Suárez, G Bou… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Carbapenem resistance is a major global health problem that seriously compromises the
treatment of infections caused by nosocomial pathogens. Resistance to carbapenems …

Class C β-lactamases: molecular characteristics

A Philippon, G Arlet, R Labia… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Class C β-lactamases or cephalosporinases can be classified into two functional groups (1,
1e) with considerable molecular variability (≤ 20% sequence identity). These enzymes are …

β-lactam antibiotics and β-lactamase enzymes inhibitors, part 2: our limited resources

S Alfei, AM Schito - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
β-lactam antibiotics (BLAs) are crucial molecules among antibacterial drugs, but the
increasing emergence of resistance to them, developed by bacteria producing β-lactamase …

An on-demand, drop-on-drop method for studying enzyme catalysis by serial crystallography

A Butryn, PS Simon, P Aller, P Hinchliffe… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Serial femtosecond crystallography has opened up many new opportunities in structural
biology. In recent years, several approaches employing light-inducible systems have …

Promising potential of boron compounds against Glioblastoma: In Vitro antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticancer studies

H Turkez, ME Arslan, A Tatar, A Mardinoglu - Neurochemistry international, 2021 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma (GB) is the most common and aggressive primary malignant astrocytoma
correlated with poor patient survival. There are no curative treatments for GB, and it …

Emerging strategies to combat β-lactamase producing ESKAPE pathogens

CO Vrancianu, I Gheorghe, EG Dobre, IC Barbu… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Since the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1929 as a therapeutic agent
against staphylococci, β-lactam antibiotics (BLAs) remained the most successful antibiotic …

Drug development concerning metallo-β-lactamases in gram-negative bacteria

X Li, J Zhao, B Zhang, X Duan, J Jiao, W Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
β-Lactams have been a clinical focus since their emergence and indeed act as a powerful
tool to combat severe bacterial infections, but their effectiveness is threatened by drug …

Cefepime–Taniborbactam: A Novel Cephalosporin/β-Lactamase Inhibitor Combination

GG Zhanel, C Mansour, S Mikolayanko, CK Lawrence… - Drugs, 2024 - Springer
Taniborbactam (formerly known as VNRX-5133) is a novel bicyclic boronate β-lactamase
inhibitor of serine β-lactamases (SBLs)[Ambler classes A, C, and D] and metallo-β …

Recent developments to cope the antibacterial resistance via β-lactamase inhibition

Z Iqbal, J Sun, H Yang, J Ji, L He, L Zhai, J Ji, P Zhou… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antibacterial resistance towards the β-lactam (BL) drugs is now ubiquitous, and there is a
major global health concern associated with the emergence of new β-lactamases (BLAs) as …

Studies on enmetazobactam clarify mechanisms of widely used β-lactamase inhibitors

PA Lang, R Raj, A Tumber… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
β-Lactams are the most important class of antibacterials, but their use is increasingly
compromised by resistance, most importantly via serine β-lactamase (SBL)-catalyzed …