A hydrophilic polyimidazolium antibiotic targeting the membranes of Gram-negative bacteria by Chen, Yahua, Yong, Melvin, Li, Ming, Si, Zhangyong, Koh, Chong Hui, Lau, Pearlyn, Chang, Yi Wei, Teo, Jeanette, Chan-Park, Mary B., Gan, Yunn-Hwen

“…The rise of MDR Gram-negative bacteria (GNB), especially those resistant to last-resort drugs such as carbapenems and colistin, is a global health risk and calls for increased efforts to discover new antimicrobial compounds. …”
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Identification of potential common cyclic-di-GMP regulated biomarkers among three gram negative bacteria via transcriptomic and metabolomic profiling by Cai, Zhao

“…Biofilm infections can evade host immune attack and develop into chronic conditions, which cannot be efficiently eradicated by conventional antimicrobial treatments. In most Gram-negative bacteria, biofilm formation can be regulated by a secondary messenger, bis-(3'-5')-cyclic dimeric guanosine monophos-phate, c-di-GMP. …”
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The Robust Malware Detection Challenge and Greedy Random Accelerated Multi-Bit Search by Verwer, Sicco, Nadeem, Azqa, Hammerschmidt, Christian, Bliek, Laurens, Al-Dujaili, Abdullah, O'Reilly, Una-May

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Designer broad-spectrum polyimidazolium antibiotics by Zhong, Wenbin, Shi, Zhenyu, Mahadevegowda, Surendra H., Liu, Bo, Zhang, Kaixi, Koh, Chong Hui, Ruan, Lin, Chen, Yahua, Zeden, Merve S., Pee, Carmen J. E., Marimuthu, Kalisvar, De, Partha Pratim, Ng, Oon Tek, Zhu, Yabin, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Hammond, Paula T., Yang, Liang, Gan, Yunn-Hwen, Pethe, Kevin, Greenberg, E. Peter, Gründling, Angelika, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…We synthesized several cationic peptide mimics, main-chain cationic polyimidazoliums (PIMs), and discovered that, although select PIMs show little acute mammalian cell toxicity, they are potent broad-spectrum antibiotics with activity against even pan-antibiotic-resistant gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, and mycobacteria. …”
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The metal ion-dependent adhesion site motif of the Enterococcus faecalis EbpA pilin mediates pilus function in catheter-associated urinary tract infection by Nielsen, Hailyn V., Guiton, Pascale S., Kline, Kimberly A., Port, Gary C., Pinkner, Jerome S., Neiers, Fabrice, Normark, Staffan, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta, Caparon, Michael G., Hultgren, Scott J.

“…As this motif occurs in other sortase-assembled pili, our results have implications for the molecular basis of virulence not only in E. faecalis CAUTI but also in additional infections caused by enterococci and other Gram-positive pathogens.…”
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New multi-target based therapeutics against an opportunistic superbug by Premkumar, Jayaraman.

“…Taken together, it is imperative to discover more potent drugs and novel therapeutic strategies to combat the infections caused by this superbug. …”
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