Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance revisited

EM Darby, E Trampari, P Siasat, MS Gaya… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotic resistance is a global health emergency, with resistance detected to all antibiotics
currently in clinical use and only a few novel drugs in the pipeline. Understanding the …

The antibiotic resistance crisis and the development of new antibiotics

H Brüssow - Microbial Biotechnology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Global Burden of Disease report of 2019 estimated 14 million infection‐related
deaths, making it the second leading cause of death after ischaemic heart disease. Bacterial …

A synthetic antibiotic class overcoming bacterial multidrug resistance

MJ Mitcheltree, A Pisipati, EA Syroegin, KJ Silvestre… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The dearth of new medicines effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria presents a
growing global public health concern. For more than five decades, the search for new …

Molecular mechanism of plasmid-borne resistance to sulfonamide antibiotics

M Venkatesan, M Fruci, LA Verellen, T Skarina… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The sulfonamides (sulfas) are the oldest class of antibacterial drugs and inhibit the bacterial
dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS, encoded by folP), through chemical mimicry of its co …

Tuning sterol extraction kinetics yields a renal-sparing polyene antifungal

A Maji, CP Soutar, J Zhang, A Lewandowska, BE Uno… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Decades of previous efforts to develop renal-sparing polyene antifungals were misguided by
the classic membrane permeabilization model. Recently, the clinically vital but also highly …

Design and synthesis of novel antimicrobial agents

Z Breijyeh, R Karaman - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The necessity for the discovery of innovative antimicrobials to treat life-threatening diseases
has increased as multidrug-resistant bacteria has spread. Due to antibiotics' availability over …

2D/2D Bi-MOF-derived BiOCl/MoS2 nanosheets S-scheme heterojunction for effective photocatalytic degradation

M Liu, P Ye, M Wang, L Wang, C Wu, J Xu… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Constructing S-scheme heterojunction derived from metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with
high photoredox ability and boosted charge separation efficiency is promising in …

Efficient degradation of tetracycline in wide pH range using MgNCN/MgO nanocomposites as novel H2O2 activator

L Ge, Y Yue, W Wang, F Tan, S Zhang, X Wang, X Qiao… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently existing Fenton-like catalysts were limited in wastewater treatment owing to their
potential transition-metal poisoning, narrow applicable pH range and high dependence on …

Structure of Erm-modified 70S ribosome reveals the mechanism of macrolide resistance

MS Svetlov, EA Syroegin, EV Aleksandrova… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Many antibiotics inhibit bacterial growth by binding to the ribosome and interfering with
protein biosynthesis. Macrolides represent one of the most successful classes of ribosome …

A large expert-curated cryo-EM image dataset for machine learning protein particle picking

A Dhakal, R Gyawali, L Wang, J Cheng - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique for determining the structures of
biological macromolecular complexes. Picking single-protein particles from cryo-EM …