Chemically modified and conjugated antimicrobial peptides against superbugs

W Li, F Separovic, NM O'Brien-Simpson… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to human health that, by 2050,
will lead to more deaths from bacterial infections than cancer. New antimicrobial agents …

Rescuing the last-line polymyxins: achievements and challenges

SC Nang, MAK Azad, T Velkov, QT Zhou, J Li… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance is a major global health challenge and, worryingly, several key Gram
negative pathogens can become resistant to most currently available antibiotics. Polymyxins …

Mode-of-action of antimicrobial peptides: membrane disruption vs. intracellular mechanisms

AH Benfield, ST Henriques - Frontiers in Medical Technology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial peptides are an attractive alternative to traditional antibiotics, due to their
physicochemical properties, activity toward a broad spectrum of bacteria, and mode-of …

Antimicrobial Bacillus: Metabolites and Their Mode of Action

C Tran, IE Cock, X Chen, Y Feng - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The agricultural industry utilizes antibiotic growth promoters to promote livestock growth and
health. However, the World Health Organization has raised concerns over the ongoing …

Natural antimicrobial lipopeptides secreted by Bacillus spp. and their application in food preservation, a critical review

B Zhang, L Xu, J Ding, M Wang, R Ge, H Zhao… - Trends in Food Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Microbial infection is one of the biggest causes of food spoilage. Thus,
preventing food from microbial-related spoilage has been one of the main concerns for the …

Antibiotic adjuvants: an alternative approach to overcome multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria

Y Liu, R Li, X **ao, Z Wang - Critical reviews in microbiology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative pathogens has emerged and constituted a global
crisis, thereby novel antibiotics and other anti-infective strategies are urgently needed …

Antimicrobial peptides with high proteolytic resistance for combating gram-negative bacteria

J Wang, J Song, Z Yang, S He, Y Yang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Poor proteolytic resistance is an urgent problem to be solved in the clinical application of
antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), yet common solutions, such as complicated chemical …

Nonribosomal antibacterial peptides that target multidrug-resistant bacteria

Y Liu, S Ding, J Shen, K Zhu - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 to 2018, particularly from 2010 to early 2018 The increase in the incidence
of antibiotic resistant infections is threatening to overwhelm healthcare practices worldwide …

Structure, properties, and biological functions of nonribosomal lipopeptides from pseudomonads

S Götze, P Stallforth - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas are ubiquitous in nature. Pseudomonads display a
fascinating metabolic diversity, which correlates with their ability to colonize an extremely …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging peptide antibiotics with therapeutic potential

G Upert, A Luther, D Obrecht, P Ermert - Medicine in drug discovery, 2021 - Elsevier
This review covers some of the recent progress in the field of peptide antibiotics with a focus
on compounds with novel or established mode of action and with demonstrated efficacy in …