Antibiotics in the clinical pipeline in October 2019

MS Butler, DL Paterson - The Journal of antibiotics, 2020 - nature.com
The development of new and effective antibacterial drugs to treat multi-drug resistant (MDR)
bacteria, especially Gram-negative (G− ve) pathogens, is acknowledged as one of the …

Leaks in the pipeline: a failure analysis of gram-negative antibiotic development from 2010 to 2020

NK Prasad, IB Seiple, RT Cirz… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that our current arsenal of
antibiotics is not innovative enough to face impending infectious diseases, especially those …

[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 …

Restoring colistin sensitivity in colistin-resistant Salmonella and Escherichia coli: combinatorial use of berberine and EDTA with colistin

X Cui, X Liu, X Ma, S Li, J Zhang, R Han, K Yi, J Liu… - MSphere, 2024 - journals.asm.org
The appearance and prevalence of multidrug-resistance (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria
(GNB) have limited our antibiotic capacity to control bacterial infections. The clinical efficacy …

Global trends in proteome remodeling of the outer membrane modulate antimicrobial permeability in Klebsiella pneumoniae

A Rocker, JA Lacey, MJ Belousoff, JJ Wilksch… - MBio, 2020 - journals.asm.org
In Gram-negative bacteria, the permeability of the outer membrane governs rates of
antibiotic uptake and thus the efficacy of antimicrobial treatment. Hydrophilic drugs like β …

Antibiotics: from mechanism of action to resistance and beyond

S Saikia, P Chetia - Indian Journal of Microbiology, 2024 - Springer
Antibiotics are the super drugs that have revolutionized modern medicine by curing many
infectious diseases caused by various microbes. They efficiently inhibit the growth and …

Potential role of lysine acetylation in antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli

Z Fang, F Lai, K Cao, Z Zhang, L Cao, S Liu, Y Duan… - Msystems, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Antibiotic resistance is increasingly becoming a challenge to public health. The regulation of
bacterial metabolism by post-translational modifications (PTMs) has been widely studied …

Lysin LysMK34 of Acinetobacter baumannii Bacteriophage PMK34 Has a Turgor Pressure-Dependent Intrinsic Antibacterial Activity and Reverts Colistin Resistance

K Abdelkader, D Gutiérrez, D Grimon… - Applied and …, 2020 - journals.asm.org
The prevalence of extensively and pandrug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii
leaves little or no therapeutic options for treatment for this bacterial pathogen …

Proton motive force inhibitors are detrimental to methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus strains

SG Mohiuddin, S Ghosh, P Kavousi… - Microbiology …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains are tolerant of conventional
antibiotics, making them extremely dangerous. Previous studies have shown the …

Analysis of Serial Isolates of mcr-1-Positive Escherichia coli Reveals a Highly Active ISApl1 Transposon

E Snesrud, AC Ong, B Corey, YI Kwak… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - journals.asm.org
The emergence of a transferable colistin resistance gene (mcr-1) is of global concern. The
insertion sequence IS Apl1 is a key component in the mobilization of this gene, but its role …