Plant natural products targeting bacterial virulence factors

LN Silva, KR Zimmer, AJ Macedo, DS Trentin - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Decreased antimicrobial efficiency has become a global public health issue. The paucity of
new antibacterial drugs is evident, and the arsenal against infectious diseases needs to be …

Essential oils extracted from different species of the Lamiaceae plant family as prospective bioagents against several detrimental pests

A Ebadollahi, M Ziaee, F Palla - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
On the basis of the side effects of detrimental synthetic chemicals, introducing healthy,
available, and effective bioagents for pest management is critical. Due to this circumstance …

Recent advances to combat ESKAPE pathogens with special reference to essential oils

SK Panda, S Buroni, SS Swain, A Bonacorsi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Biofilm-associated bacteria, especially ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium,
Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas …

Antimicrobial activity of naturally occurring phenols and derivatives against biofilm and planktonic bacteria

DJ Walsh, T Livinghouse, DM Goeres, M Mettler… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Biofilm-forming bacteria present formidable challenges across diverse settings, and there is
a need for new antimicrobial agents that are both environmentally acceptable and relatively …

Antivirulence properties and related mechanisms of spice essential oils: A comprehensive review

D Zhang, RY Gan, JR Zhang, AK Farha… - … Reviews in Food …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, reduced antimicrobial effectiveness, increased bacterial infection, and
newly emerged microbial resistance have become global public issues, leading to an urgent …

Thymol and carvacrol induce autolysis, stress, growth inhibition and reduce the biofilm formation by Streptococcus mutans

ST Khan, M Khan, J Ahmad, R Wahab… - Amb Express, 2017 - Springer
Organic compounds from plants are an attractive alternative to conventional antimicrobial
agents. Therefore, two compounds namely M-1 and M-2 were purified from Origanum …

Synthesis of carvacrol derivatives as potential new anticancer agent against lung cancer

A Bansal, MM Saleh-E-In, P Kar, A Roy, NR Sharma - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer remains a major public health concern among all cancer diseases due to the
toxicity and side-effects of the available commercially synthesized drugs. Natural product …

Antibiofilm and Antihyphal Activities of Cedar Leaf Essential Oil, Camphor, and Fenchone Derivatives against Candida albicans

RK Manoharan, JH Lee, J Lee - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Candida albicans can form biofilms composed of yeast, hyphal, and pseudohyphal
elements, and C. albicans cells in the hyphal stage could be a virulence factor. The present …

Cinnamomum: The New Therapeutic Agents for Inhibition of Bacterial and Fungal Biofilm-Associated Infection

M Didehdar, Z Chegini, SP Tabaeian… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Due to the potent antibacterial properties of Cinnamomum and its derivatives, particularly
cinnamaldehyde, recent studies have used these compounds to inhibit the growth of the …

PLGA-based nanoplatforms in drug delivery for inhibition and destruction of microbial biofilm

A Shariati, Z Chegini, E Ghaznavi-Rad… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The biofilm community of microorganisms has been identified as the dominant mode of
microbial growth in nature and a common characteristic of different microorganisms such as …