Unrealized targets in the discovery of antibiotics for gram-negative bacterial infections

U Theuretzbacher, B Blasco, M Duffey… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in areas that include genomics, systems biology, protein structure determination
and artificial intelligence provide new opportunities for target-based antibacterial drug …

β-Lactams against the Fortress of the Gram-Positive Staphylococcus aureus Bacterium

JF Fisher, S Mobashery - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The biological diversity of the unicellular bacteria—whether assessed by shape, food,
metabolism, or ecological niche—surely rivals (if not exceeds) that of the multicellular …

Transferable mechanisms of quinolone resistance from 1998 onward

J Ruiz - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
While the description of resistance to quinolones is almost as old as these antimicrobial
agents themselves, transferable mechanisms of quinolone resistance (TMQR) remained …

Synthesis of macrocyclic nucleoside antibacterials and their interactions with MraY

T Nakaya, M Yabe, EH Mashalidis, T Sato… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of new antibacterial drugs with different mechanisms of action is urgently
needed to address antimicrobial resistance. MraY is an essential membrane enzyme …

Synthesis, antimicrobial evaluation, and in silico studies of quinoline—1H-1,2,3-triazole molecular hybrids

P Awolade, N Cele, N Kerru, P Singh - Molecular diversity, 2021 - Springer
Antimicrobial resistance has become a significant threat to global public health, thus
precipitating an exigent need for new drugs with improved therapeutic efficacy. In this …

Chemical logic of MraY inhibition by antibacterial nucleoside natural products

EH Mashalidis, B Kaeser, Y Terasawa… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Novel antibacterial agents are needed to address the emergence of global antibiotic
resistance. MraY is a promising candidate for antibiotic development because it is the target …

Tunicamycins from Marine-Derived Streptomyces bacillaris Inhibit MurNAc-Pentapeptide Translocase in Staphylococcus aureus

J Lee, JY Hwang, D Oh, DC Oh, H Park, J Shin, KB Oh - Marine Drugs, 2024 - mdpi.com
Four tunicamycin class compounds, tunicamycin VII (1), tunicamycin VIII (2), corynetoxin
U17a (3), and tunicamycin IX (4), were isolated from the culture broth of the marine-derived …

Mechanism of action of nucleoside antibacterial natural product antibiotics

TDH Bugg, RV Kerr - The Journal of Antibiotics, 2019 - nature.com
This article reviews the structures and biological activities of several classes of uridine-
containing nucleoside antibiotics (tunicamycins, mureidomycins/pacidamycins …

Cell surface biosynthesis and remodeling pathways in mycobacteria reveal new drug targets

M Shaku, C Ealand, BD Kana - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), remains the
leading cause of death from an infectious bacterium and is responsible for 1.8 million deaths …

Structures of bacterial MraY and human GPT provide insights into rational antibiotic design

EH Mashalidis, SY Lee - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
The widespread emergence of antibiotic resistance in pathogens necessitates the
development of antibacterial agents inhibiting underexplored targets in bacterial …