Macrophage activation highlight an important role for NER proteins in the survival, latency and multiplication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

M Thakur, K Muniyappa - Tuberculosis, 2023 - Elsevier
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is one of the most extensively studied DNA repair
processes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The NER pathway is a highly conserved …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae: DNA Repair Systems and Their Role in Pathogenesis

VY Savitskaya, MV Monakhova, IV Iakushkina… - Biochemistry …, 2022 - Springer
Neisseria gonorrhoeae (a Gram-negative diplococcus) is a human pathogen and causative
agent of gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection. The bacterium uses various …

Developing novel antimicrobials by combining cancer chemotherapeutics with bacterial DNA repair inhibitors

L Bernacchia, A Gupta, A Paris, AA Moores… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Cancer chemotherapeutics kill rapidly dividing cells, which includes cells of the immune
system. The resulting neutropenia predisposes patients to infection, which delays treatment …

Antibacterial Activity and Mechanism of Action of Osthole against Listeria monocytogenes

Y Kong, H Yan, J Hu, Y Dang, Z Han… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The purpose of this study was to investigate the antibacterial activity and mechanism of
action of osthole against Listeria monocytogenes. The antibacterial activity of osthole was …

Identification of a novel DNA repair inhibitor using an in silico driven approach shows effective combinatorial activity with genotoxic agents against multidrug‐resistant …

L Bernacchia, A Paris, A Gupta, RJ Charman… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing antimicrobial drug resistance represents a global existential threat. Infection is a
particular problem in immunocompromised individuals, such as patients undergoing cancer …

Combining cancer chemotherapeutics with bacterial DNA repair inhibitors to develop novel antimicrobials

L Bernacchia, A Gupta, A Paris, AA Moores, NM Kad - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Cancer chemotherapeutics kill rapidly dividing cells, which includes cells of the immune
system. The resulting neutropenia predisposes patients to infection, which delays treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Hypothesis-generating proteome perturbation to identify NEU-4438 and acoziborole modes of action in the African Trypanosome

A Sharma, M Cipriano, L Ferrins, SL Hajduk… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
NEU-4438 is a lead for the development of drugs against Trypanosoma brucei, which
causes human African trypanosomiasis. Optimized with phenotypic screening, targets of …