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 …

Antimicrobial peptides, conventional antibiotics, and their synergistic utility for the treatment of drug‐resistant infections

Y Zhu, W Hao, X Wang, J Ouyang… - Medicinal Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also known as host defense peptides (HDPs), are important
effector immune defense molecules in multicellular organisms. AMPs exert their …

A broad-spectrum antibiotic adjuvant reverses multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens

M Song, Y Liu, X Huang, S Ding, Y Wang, J Shen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The rapid emergence and dissemination of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pathogens
pose a serious threat to global healthcare. One particular concern is the carbapenem …

Ciprofloxacin derivatives and their antibacterial activities

GF Zhang, X Liu, S Zhang, B Pan, ML Liu - European journal of medicinal …, 2018 - Elsevier
Bacterial infections represent a significant health threat globally, and are responsible for the
majority of hospital-acquired infections, leading to extensive mortality and burden on global …

Biological effects of quinolones: a family of broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents

AR Millanao, AY Mora, NA Villagra, SA Bucarey… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Broad antibacterial spectrum, high oral bioavailability and excellent tissue penetration
combined with safety and few, yet rare, unwanted effects, have made the quinolones class of …

Cationic polysaccharide conjugates as antibiotic adjuvants resensitize multidrug‐resistant bacteria and prevent resistance

S Mu, Y Zhu, Y Wang, S Qu, Y Huang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, traditional antibiotic efficacy has rapidly diminished due to the advent of
multidrug‐resistant (MDR) bacteria, which poses severe threat to human life and globalized …

Antibiotic hybrids: the next generation of agents and adjuvants against Gram-negative pathogens?

R Domalaon, T Idowu, GG Zhanel… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The global incidence of drug-resistant Gram-negative bacillary infections has been
increasing, and there is a dire need to develop novel strategies to overcome this problem …

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 …

Multitarget approaches against multiresistant superbugs

DA Gray, M Wenzel - ACS Infectious Diseases, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite efforts to develop new antibiotics, antibacterial resistance still develops too fast for
drug discovery to keep pace. Often, resistance against a new drug develops even before it …

Synergy by perturbing the gram-negative outer membrane: opening the door for gram-positive specific antibiotics

CMJ Wesseling, NI Martin - ACS Infectious Diseases, 2022 - ACS Publications
New approaches to target antibacterial agents toward Gram-negative bacteria are key, given
the rise of antibiotic resistance. Since the discovery of polymyxin B nonapeptide as a potent …