Staphylococcus aureus host interactions and adaptation

BP Howden, SG Giulieri, T Wong Fok Lung… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections are common, causing high mortality,
compounded by the propensity of the bacterium to develop drug resistance. S. aureus is an …

Ribosome biogenesis in disease: new players and therapeutic targets

L Jiao, Y Liu, XY Yu, X Pan, Y Zhang, J Tu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
The ribosome is a multi-unit complex that translates mRNA into protein. Ribosome
biogenesis is the process that generates ribosomes and plays an essential role in cell …

Infection microenvironment-related antibacterial nanotherapeutic strategies

Z Wang, X Liu, Y Duan, Y Huang - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest challenges in public
health. There is an urgent need to discover novel agents against the occurrence of multidrug …

Ampicillin-controlled glucose metabolism manipulates the transition from tolerance to resistance in bacteria

M Jiang, Y Su, J Ye, H Li, S Kuang, J Wu, S Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The mechanism (s) of how bacteria acquire tolerance and then resistance to antibiotics
remains poorly understood. Here, we show that glucose abundance decreases …

Essential oils as multicomponent mixtures and their potential for human health and well-being

M Bunse, R Daniels, C Gründemann… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Essential oils (EOs) and their individual volatile organic constituents have been an inherent
part of our civilization for thousands of years. They are widely used as fragrances in …

Nanobiotics against antimicrobial resistance: harnessing the power of nanoscale materials and technologies

N Chakraborty, D Jha, I Roy, P Kumar… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Given the spasmodic increment in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), world is on the verge of
“post-antibiotic era”. It is anticipated that current SARS-CoV2 pandemic would worsen the …

Droplet-based high-throughput single microbe RNA sequencing by smRandom-seq

Z Xu, Y Wang, K Sheng, R Rosenthal, N Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacteria colonize almost all parts of the human body and can differ significantly. However,
the population level transcriptomics measurements can only describe the average bacteria …

Microbial communities form rich extracellular metabolomes that foster metabolic interactions and promote drug tolerance

JSL Yu, C Correia-Melo, F Zorrilla… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial communities are composed of cells of varying metabolic capacity, and regularly
include auxotrophs that lack essential metabolic pathways. Through analysis of auxotrophs …

Fiber supplementation protects from antibiotic-induced gut microbiome dysbiosis by modulating gut redox potential

S Penumutchu, BJ Korry, K Hewlett… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis (AID) is a frequent and serious side effect of antibiotic use
and mitigating this dysbiosis is a critical therapeutic target. We propose that the host diet can …

The physiology and genetics of bacterial responses to antibiotic combinations

R Roemhild, T Bollenbach, DI Andersson - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Several promising strategies based on combining or cycling different antibiotics have been
proposed to increase efficacy and counteract resistance evolution, but we still lack a deep …