Thinking outside the box—novel antibacterials to tackle the resistance crisis

M Lakemeyer, W Zhao, FA Mandl… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The public view on antibiotics as reliable medicines changed when reports about “resistant
superbugs” appeared in the news. While reasons for this resistance development are easily …

Disulfide bond formation in prokaryotes

C Landeta, D Boyd, J Beckwith - Nature microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Interest in protein disulfide bond formation has recently increased because of the prominent
role of disulfide bonds in bacterial virulence and survival. The first discovered pathway that …

Disulfide-bond-forming pathways in Gram-positive bacteria

ME Reardon-Robinson, H Ton-That - Journal of Bacteriology, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Disulfide bonds are important for the stability and function of many secreted proteins. In
Gram-negative bacteria, these linkages are catalyzed by thiol-disulfide oxidoreductases …

Benefits and challenges of antivirulence antimicrobials at the dawn of the post-antibiotic era

M Totsika - Drug Delivery Letters, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
In April 2014, the World Health Organization announced the beginning of a post-antibiotic
era and declared antimicrobial resistance (AMR) a public health priority demanding global …

Periplasmic targets for the development of effective antimicrobials against Gram-negative bacteria

A Pandeya, I Ojo, O Alegun, Y Wei - ACS infectious diseases, 2020 - ACS Publications
Antibiotic resistance has emerged as a serious threat to global public health in recent years.
Lack of novel antimicrobials, especially new classes of compounds, further aggravates the …

Targeting bacterial Dsb proteins for the development of anti-virulence agents

RP Smith, JJ Paxman, MJ Scanlon, B Heras - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in bacterial antimicrobial resistance and a
decline in the development of novel antibiotics. New therapeutic strategies are urgently …

[HTML][HTML] New avenues of combating antibiotic resistance by targeting cryptic pockets

Y Gao, H Chen, W Yang, S Wang, D Gong… - Pharmacological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance is a global health concern that is rapidly spreading among human and
animal pathogens. Developing novel antibiotics is one of the most significant approaches to …

Disulfide bonds in protein folding and stability

MJ Feige, I Braakman, LM Hendershot - 2018 - books.rsc.org
Disulfide Bonds in Protein Folding and Stability | Oxidative Folding of Proteins: Basic
Principles, Cellular Regulation and Engineering | Books Gateway | Royal Society of Chemistry …

Inhibition of diverse DsbA enzymes in multi-DsbA encoding pathogens

M Totsika, D Vagenas, JJ Paxman, G Wang… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Aims: DsbA catalyzes disulfide bond formation in secreted and outer membrane proteins in
bacteria. In pathogens, DsbA is a major facilitator of virulence constituting a target for …

Rapid Elaboration of Fragments into Leads by X-ray Crystallographic Screening of Parallel Chemical Libraries (REFiLX)

MR Bentley, OV Ilyichova, G Wang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A bottleneck in fragment-based lead development is the lack of systematic approaches to
elaborate the initial fragment hits, which usually bind with low affinity to their target. Herein …