Bacteria, similar to most organisms, have a love–hate relationship with metals: a specific
metal may be essential for survival yet toxic in certain forms and concentrations. Metal ions …

Traditional organic antimicrobials mainly act on specific biochemical processes such as
replication, transcription and translation. However, the emergence and wide spread of …

Daptomycin is a highly efficient last-resort antibiotic that targets the bacterial cell membrane.
Despite its clinical importance, the exact mechanism by which daptomycin kills bacteria is …

Nanozymes have drawn significant scientific interest due to their high practical importance in
terms of overcoming the instability, complicated synthesis, and high cost of protein enzymes …

With the widespread rise of antimicrobial resistance, most traditional sources for new drug
compounds have been explored intensively for new classes of antibiotics. Meanwhile, metal …

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 …

There are currently fewer than 10 antifungal drugs in clinical development, but new fungal
strains that are resistant to most current antifungals are spreading rapidly across the world …

The bacterial cytoplasmic membrane is a major inhibitory target for antimicrobial
compounds. Commonly, although not exclusively, these compounds unfold their …

Glucose is abundant in nature and can be found in various sources. In this study, we
developed multifunctional carbon dots (CDs) with glucose and poly (ethyleneimine)(PEI) …

There has been fast-growing interest in the exploitation of the photophysical and
photochemical properties of luminescent transition metal complexes in biological …