The antibiotic resistome: a guide for the discovery of natural products as antimicrobial agents

C Hobson, AN Chan, GD Wright - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
The use of life-saving antibiotics has long been plagued by the ability of pathogenic bacteria
to acquire and develop an array of antibiotic resistance mechanisms. The sum of these …

Next-generation approaches to understand and combat the antibiotic resistome

TS Crofts, AJ Gasparrini, G Dantas - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
Antibiotic resistance is a natural feature of diverse microbial ecosystems. Although recent
studies of the antibiotic resistome have highlighted barriers to the horizontal transfer of …

Antibiotic combinations reduce Staphylococcus aureus clearance

V Lázár, O Snitser, D Barkan, R Kishony - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The spread of antibiotic resistance is attracting increased attention to combination-based
treatments. Although drug combinations have been studied extensively for their effects on …

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 …

Antibiotic resistance: turning evolutionary principles into clinical reality

DI Andersson, NQ Balaban, F Baquero… - FEMS microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic resistance is one of the major challenges facing modern medicine worldwide. The
past few decades have witnessed rapid progress in our understanding of the multiple factors …

Molecular evolution of antifungal drug resistance

N Robbins, T Caplan, LE Cowen - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The fungal pathogens Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Aspergillus
fumigatus have transitioned from a rare curiosity to a leading cause of human mortality. The …

High-throughput screening of natural product and synthetic molecule libraries for antibacterial drug discovery

NJ Ayon - Metabolites, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to the continued emergence of resistance and a lack of new and promising antibiotics,
bacterial infection has become a major public threat. High-throughput screening (HTS) …

[HTML][HTML] The combination of antibiotic and non-antibiotic compounds improves antibiotic efficacy against multidrug-resistant bacteria

G **ao, J Li, Z Sun - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bacterial antibiotic resistance, especially the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR)
strains, urgently requires the development of effective treatment strategies. It is always of …

Crossroads of antibiotic resistance and biosynthesis

TA Wencewicz - Journal of molecular biology, 2019 - Elsevier
The biosynthesis of antibiotics and self-protection mechanisms employed by antibiotic
producers are an integral part of the growing antibiotic resistance threat. The origins of …

Experimental design, population dynamics, and diversity in microbial experimental evolution

B Van den Bergh, T Swings, M Fauvart… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2018 - journals.asm.org
In experimental evolution, laboratory-controlled conditions select for the adaptation of
species, which can be monitored in real time. Despite the current popularity of such …