[HTML][HTML] Challenge in the discovery of new drugs: antimicrobial peptides against WHO-list of critical and high-priority bacteria

CA Roque-Borda, PB da Silva, MC Rodrigues… - Pharmaceutics, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Bacterial resistance has intensified in recent years due to the uncontrolled use of
conventional drugs, and new bacterial strains with multiple resistance have been reported …

Amidation of glutamate residues in mycobacterial peptidoglycan is essential for cell wall cross-linking

MT Shaku, KL Ocius, AJ Apostolos, MM Pires… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Introduction Mycobacteria assemble a complex cell wall with cross-linked peptidoglycan
(PG) which plays an essential role in maintenance of cell wall integrity and tolerance to …

CRISPRi-mediated characterization of novel anti-tuberculosis targets: Mycobacterial peptidoglycan modifications promote beta-lactam resistance and intracellular …

C Silveiro, M Marques, F Olivença, D Pires… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
The lack of effective therapeutics against emerging multi-drug resistant strains of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) prompts the identification of novel anti-tuberculosis …

A modified BCG with depletion of enzymes associated with peptidoglycan amidation induces enhanced protection against tuberculosis in mice

MT Shaku, PK Um, KL Ocius, AJ Apostolos, MM Pires… - Elife, 2024‏ - elifesciences.org
Mechanisms by which Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) evades pathogen recognition
receptor activation during infection may offer insights for the development of improved …

Identification and characterization of archaeal pseudomurein biosynthesis genes through pangenomics

V Lupo, C Roomans, E Royen, L Ongena… - …, 2025‏ - journals.asm.org
The peptidoglycan (PG, or murein) is a mesh-like structure, which is made of glycan
polymers connected by short peptides and surrounds the cell membrane of nearly all …

The mutation rate of rpoB gene showed an upward trend with the increase of MIRU10, MIRU39 and QUB4156 repetitive number

F Su, L Cao, X Ren, J Hu, G Tavengana, H Wu, Y Zhou… - BMC genomics, 2023‏ - Springer
Background Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number tandem repeat
(MIRU-VNTR) is a frequently used ty** method for identifying the Bei**g genotype of …

Origin and Evolution of Pseudomurein Biosynthetic Gene Clusters

V Lupo, C Roomans, E Royen, L Ongena… - bioRxiv, 2022‏ - biorxiv.org
The peptidoglycan (PG; or murein) is a mesh-like structure, which is made of glycan
polymers connected by short peptides and surrounds the cell membrane of nearly all …

Investigating the role of CwlM interaction with MviN and peptidoglycan in mycobacterial growth and stress response

A Alrajhi - 2024‏ - figshare.le.ac.uk
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the major disease-causing agents worldwide; it claims
over one million lives annually. The complex lipid rich cell wall is a critical component that …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular mechanisms of drug synergy and persistence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Y Xu - 2023‏ - openresearch.surrey.ac.uk
Molecular mechanisms of drug synergy and persistence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Page 1
Molecular mechanisms of drug synergy and persistence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Ye …

[PDF][PDF] Peptidoglycan amidation enzymes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis are new drug targets for Tuberculosis treatment and development of a novel TB vaccine

MT Shaku - 2023‏ - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the causative agent of Tuberculosis (TB), a
communicable disease that remains the leading cause of death from an infectious disease …