Pseudomonas aeruginosa: pathogenesis, virulence factors, antibiotic resistance, interaction with host, technology advances and emerging therapeutics

S Qin, W **ao, C Zhou, Q Pu, X Deng, L Lan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that
infects patients with cystic fibrosis, burn wounds, immunodeficiency, chronic obstructive …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotic resistance in microbes: History, mechanisms, therapeutic strategies and future prospects

TM Uddin, AJ Chakraborty, A Khusro… - Journal of infection and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotics have been used to cure bacterial infections for more than 70 years, and these low-
molecular-weight bioactive agents have also been used for a variety of other medicinal …

CRISPR-based diagnostics

MM Kaminski, OO Abudayyeh, JS Gootenberg… - Nature Biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
The accurate and timely diagnosis of disease is a prerequisite for efficient therapeutic
intervention and epidemiological surveillance. Diagnostics based on the detection of nucleic …

[HTML][HTML] Review of COVID-19 testing and diagnostic methods

O Filchakova, D Dossym, A Ilyas, T Kuanysheva… - Talanta, 2022 - Elsevier
More than six billion tests for COVID-19 has been already performed in the world. The
testing for SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2) virus and …

PROTACs: great opportunities for academia and industry (an update from 2020 to 2021)

M He, C Cao, Z Ni, Y Liu, P Song, S Hao, Y He… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) technology is a new protein-
degradation strategy that has emerged in recent years. It uses bifunctional small molecules …

COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens

MY Galperin, YI Wolf, KS Makarova… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Clusters of Orthologous Genes (COG) database, also referred to as the
Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins, was created in 1997 and went through several …

Genome editing with CRISPR–Cas nucleases, base editors, transposases and prime editors

AV Anzalone, LW Koblan, DR Liu - Nature biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
The development of new CRISPR–Cas genome editing tools continues to drive major
advances in the life sciences. Four classes of CRISPR–Cas-derived genome editing agents …

Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing

ML Leibowitz, S Papathanasiou, PA Doerfler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome editing has therapeutic potential for treating genetic diseases and cancer.
However, the currently most practicable approaches rely on the generation of DNA double …

Evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants

KS Makarova, YI Wolf, J Iranzo, SA Shmakov… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The number and diversity of known CRISPR–Cas systems have substantially increased in
recent years. Here, we provide an updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas …

Programmable RNA editing with compact CRISPR–Cas13 systems from uncultivated microbes

C Xu, Y Zhou, Q **ao, B He, G Geng, Z Wang, B Cao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Competitive coevolution between microbes and viruses has led to the diversification of
CRISPR–Cas defense systems against infectious agents. By analyzing metagenomic …