Drug repurposing for antimicrobial discovery

MA Farha, ED Brown - Nature microbiology, 2019‏ - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance continues to be a public threat on a global scale. The ongoing need
to develop new antimicrobial drugs that are effective against multi-drug-resistant pathogens …

Microbiota–gut–brain axis and epilepsy: a review on mechanisms and potential therapeutics

M Ding, Y Lang, H Shu, J Shao, L Cui - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The gut–brain axis refers to the bidirectional communication between the gut and brain, and
regulates intestinal homeostasis and the central nervous system via neural networks and …

Generative AI for designing and validating easily synthesizable and structurally novel antibiotics

K Swanson, G Liu, DB Catacutan, A Arnold… - Nature Machine …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The rise of pan-resistant bacteria is creating an urgent need for structurally novel antibiotics.
Artificial intelligence methods can discover new antibiotics, but existing methods have …

Antibacterial activity of nonantibiotics is orthogonal to standard antibiotics

M Noto Guillen, C Li, B Rosener, A Mitchell - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Numerous nonantibiotic drugs have potent antibacterial activity and can adversely affect the
human microbiome. The mechanistic underpinning of this toxicity remains largely unknown …

Pentamidine sensitizes Gram-negative pathogens to antibiotics and overcomes acquired colistin resistance

JM Stokes, CR MacNair, B Ilyas, S French, JP Côté… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
The increasing use of polymyxins 1 in addition to the dissemination of plasmid-borne colistin
resistance threatens to cause a serious breach in our last line of defence against multidrug …

The gut microbiome and epilepsy

M Dahlin, S Prast-Nielsen - EBioMedicine, 2019‏ - thelancet.com
Recently, evidence from both animal studies and human cases has emerged that a
dysbiosis in the gut may be associated with certain forms of epilepsy. The ketogenic diet is …

Bacterial Targets of Antibiotics in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

H Lade, JS Kim - Antibiotics, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most prevalent bacterial
pathogens and continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. MRSA …

Modular assembly of the bacterial large ribosomal subunit

JH Davis, YZ Tan, B Carragher, CS Potter, D Lyumkis… - Cell, 2016‏ - cell.com
The ribosome is a complex macromolecular machine and serves as an ideal system for
understanding biological macromolecular assembly. Direct observation of ribosome …

[HTML][HTML] Psychotropics and the microbiome: a chamber of secrets…

S Cussotto, G Clarke, TG Dinan, JF Cryan - Psychopharmacology, 2019‏ - Springer
The human gut contains trillions of symbiotic bacteria that play a key role in programming
different aspects of host physiology in health and disease. Psychotropic medications act on …

Structures of the human mitochondrial ribosome in native states of assembly

A Brown, S Rathore, D Kimanius, S Aibara… - Nature structural & …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) have less rRNA content and 36
additional proteins compared with the evolutionarily related bacterial ribosome. These …