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Mining the bacterial genome to discover new antimicrobial molecules
Multidrug resistance is one of the major public health issues the world is facing today. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed recently that there has been little progress in the development of new antibiotics to tackle drug‐resistant infections. By mining the bacterial genome databa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8819310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34907647 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202115409 |
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description | Multidrug resistance is one of the major public health issues the world is facing today. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed recently that there has been little progress in the development of new antibiotics to tackle drug‐resistant infections. By mining the bacterial genome database, Zhu et al, in the last issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, report a defensin expressed by human oral actinomyces, actinomycesin, and characterize its anti‐infectious capacity (Zhu et al, 2021). They demonstrate the safety and efficacy of this bacterial antimicrobial peptide (AMP) against various bacterial strains, describe its mode of action, and validate its use as systemic drug therapy against bacterial infections in mice. This study highlights human oral bacteria as a source of antimicrobial agents that need to be considered in the future to fight multidrug‐resistant bacteria. |
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spelling | pubmed-88193102022-02-11 Mining the bacterial genome to discover new antimicrobial molecules Liang, Wenjie Diana, Julien EMBO Mol Med News & Views Multidrug resistance is one of the major public health issues the world is facing today. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed recently that there has been little progress in the development of new antibiotics to tackle drug‐resistant infections. By mining the bacterial genome database, Zhu et al, in the last issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine, report a defensin expressed by human oral actinomyces, actinomycesin, and characterize its anti‐infectious capacity (Zhu et al, 2021). They demonstrate the safety and efficacy of this bacterial antimicrobial peptide (AMP) against various bacterial strains, describe its mode of action, and validate its use as systemic drug therapy against bacterial infections in mice. This study highlights human oral bacteria as a source of antimicrobial agents that need to be considered in the future to fight multidrug‐resistant bacteria. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-12-15 2022-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8819310/ /pubmed/34907647 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202115409 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | News & Views Liang, Wenjie Diana, Julien Mining the bacterial genome to discover new antimicrobial molecules |
title | Mining the bacterial genome to discover new antimicrobial molecules |
title_full | Mining the bacterial genome to discover new antimicrobial molecules |
title_fullStr | Mining the bacterial genome to discover new antimicrobial molecules |
title_full_unstemmed | Mining the bacterial genome to discover new antimicrobial molecules |
title_short | Mining the bacterial genome to discover new antimicrobial molecules |
title_sort | mining the bacterial genome to discover new antimicrobial molecules |
topic | News & Views |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8819310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34907647 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202115409 |
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