Fighting antibiotic resistance—strategies and (pre) clinical developments to find new antibacterials

S Walesch, J Birkelbach, G Jézéquel, FPJ Haeckl… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Antibacterial resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health. The development of
new therapeutics against bacterial pathogens has slowed drastically since the approvals of …

Metallo-β-lactamases in the age of multidrug resistance: from structure and mechanism to evolution, dissemination, and inhibitor design

G Bahr, LJ Gonzalez, AJ Vila - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major problems in current practical medicine. The
spread of genes coding for resistance determinants among bacteria challenges the use of …

Enterobacter spp.: Update on Taxonomy, Clinical Aspects, and Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance

A Davin-Regli, JP Lavigne… - Clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
The genus Enterobacter is a member of the ESKAPE group, which contains the major
resistant bacterial pathogens. First described in 1960, this group member has proven to be …

How to enter a bacterium: bacterial porins and the permeation of antibiotics

JD Prajapati, U Kleinekathöfer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Despite tremendous successes in the field of antibiotic discovery seen in the previous
century, infectious diseases have remained a leading cause of death. More specifically …

Porins and small-molecule translocation across the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria

J Vergalli, IV Bodrenko, M Masi, L Moynié… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Gram-negative bacteria and their complex cell envelope, which comprises an outer
membrane and an inner membrane, are an important and attractive system for studying the …

Recent advances in design of antimicrobial peptides and polypeptides toward clinical translation

Y Jiang, Y Chen, Z Song, Z Tan, J Cheng - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent outbreaks of infectious diseases caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens have
sounded a piercing alarm for the need of new effective antimicrobial agents to guard public …

Present and future of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections

B Suay-García, MT Pérez-Gracia - Advances in clinical …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter analyzes the epidemiology of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
(CRE) as well as current and future treatment options against the increasingly resistant …

The evolution and ecology of bacterial warfare

ET Granato, TA Meiller-Legrand, KR Foster - Current biology, 2019 - cell.com
Bacteria have evolved a wide range of mechanisms to harm and kill their competitors,
including chemical, mechanical and biological weapons. Here we review the incredible …

Fighting antibiotic resistance in hospital-acquired infections: current state and emerging technologies in disease prevention, diagnostics and therapy

E Avershina, V Shapovalova, G Shipulin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rising antibiotic resistance is a global threat that is projected to cause more deaths than all
cancers combined by 2050. In this review, we set to summarize the current state of antibiotic …

Chemical basis of combination therapy to combat antibiotic resistance

Z Si, K Pethe, MB Chan-Park - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
The antimicrobial resistance crisis is a global health issue requiring discovery and
development of novel therapeutics. However, conventional screening of natural products or …