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Engineering Microbial Particles for Next‐Generation Biomedical Platforms

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Microbe‐derived particles (MDPs), which include extracellular vesicles, outer membrane vesicles, inclusion bodies, polysaccharide particles, and virus‐like particles, represent a rapidly expanding category of bioinspired nanomaterials. With their natural origin, intrinsic biocompatibility, and highly programmable functionality, MDPs serve as a ...
Yuting Li, Yunjie Lu, Ziyan Huang, Jianjiang Chen, Yanbin Liu, Lei Qin, Chao Wang, Yumin Wu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Cationic Supramolecule With Potent Antifungal Activity, Single‐Species Selectivity, and Strong Synergy With Echinocandins

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We introduce a new membrane‐active antifungal design, Gua‐SMACS‐16, that exhibits high potency and single‐species selectivity for C. tropicalis while sparing other close species in the Candida genus. Moreover, when combining with caspofungin, a clinical antifungal drug inhibiting 1,3‐β‐glucan synthase, they exhibit ultra‐strong synergy across a panel ...
Tianjiao Dai, Adrielle Xianwen Chen, Eve Wai Ling Chow, Li Mei Pang, Jianguo Li, Chandra Shekhar Verma, Stefan H. Oehlers, Yue Wang, Ning Li   +8 more
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Mechanism‐Informed Machine Learning Enables Discovery of Oncolytic Peptides for Cancer Immunotherapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
MISPOP integrates ensemble learning with membrane‐active physicochemical priors to identify Dermaseptin‐S9, a natural oncolytic peptide that disrupts tumor membranes, triggers immunogenic cell death, and shows strong antitumor activity. The study illustrates a mechanism‐informed route from peptide sequence data to cancer immunotherapy leads.
Wen Zhang, Shengxin Lu, Guangyong Zheng, Shensuo Li, Hongyu Chen, Mei Hong, Xiangru Zhou, Ruotian Tang, Ye Wu, Weidong Zhang, Dong Lu, Xin Luan   +11 more
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Ciclopirox Olamine Inhibits the NLRP3 Inflammasome to Alleviate Inflammatory Diseases

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
There is no drug targeting the NLRP3 inflammasome that has been approved for use in clinical settings. Ciclopirox olamine (CPX), an antifungal agent approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is identified as a specific and potent NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitor. CPX targets the NACHT domain of NLRP3 at Y381 to impair NLRP3 oligomerization and
Xinyu Xia, Hui You, Ke Zhang, Hui Jiang, Hongping Liu, Lianghua Liu, Aijie Zhang, You Zhou   +7 more
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A Strong Lewis Acidic Diethylsilylium Catalyst for Direct Sulfonamidation of Challenging Ketones

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Low‐substitution‐order silylium ions (R2HSi+) exhibit exceptional Lewis acidic activity. We report diethylsilylium‐catalyzed reductive sulfonamidation of functionalized ketones to access β‐amino esters. The in situ generated ion pair shows enhanced reactivity, with diethylsilane serving as both reductant and precatalyst. The developed protocol proceeds
Woo Hee Kim, Muhammad Israr, You Kyoung Chung, Shinwon Ham, Joonsuk Huh, Han Yong Bae   +5 more
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Drug-Resistant Fungi: An Emerging Challenge Threatening Our Limited Antifungal Armamentarium

Antibiotics, 2020
The high clinical mortality and economic burden posed by invasive fungal infections (IFIs), along with significant agricultural crop loss caused by various fungal species, has resulted in the widespread use of antifungal agents.
Amir Arastehfar, Toni Gabaldón, Rocio Garcia-Rubio, Jeffrey D. Jenks, Martin Hoenigl, Helmut J. F. Salzer, Macit Ilkit, Cornelia Lass-Flörl, David S. Perlin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Functional characterization of the regulators of calcineurin in Candida glabrata [PDF]

, 2011
The serine-threonine-specific protein phosphatase calcineurin is a key mediator of various stress responses in fungi. Herein, we characterized functions of the endogenous regulators of calcineurin (RCNs), Rcn1 and Rcn2, in the pathogenic fungus Candida ...
Nagayoshi, Yohsuke, Kakeya, Hiroshi, Saijo, Tomomi, Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu, Shunsuke Yamauchi, Miyazaki, Taiga, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Koichi Izumikawa, Yamamoto, Yoshihiro, Yanagihara, Katsunori, Taiga Miyazaki, Yohsuke Nagayoshi, Kohno, Shigeru, Tomomi Saijo, Shigeru Kohno, Izumikawa, Koichi, Yoshitomo Morinaga, Masafumi Seki, Hiroshi Kakeya, Katsunori Yanagihara, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Seki, Masafumi, Yamauchi, Shunsuke, Morinaga, Yoshitomo   +23 more
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De Novo Design of Membrane‐Targeting Antimicrobial Peptides Against Gram‐Negative Bacteria Using a Generative Artificial Intelligence Framework

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial resistance caused by Gram‐negative bacteria remains difficult to overcome due to the protective outer membrane. To address this challenge, a multi‐condition constrained generative AI framework, GenMTAMP is proposed for de novo membrane‐targeting antimicrobial peptide design by integrating physicochemical and spatial structure descriptors.
Jingxiao Yu, Da‐Wen Sun, QingYi Wei, Yibing Zhang, Jidong Tang, Hongbin Pu   +5 more
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Isavuconazole Is as Effective as and Better Tolerated Than Voriconazole for Antifungal Prophylaxis in Lung Transplant Recipients

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
Abstract Background Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) are common following lung transplantation. Isavuconazole is unstudied as prophylaxis in organ transplant recipients. We compared effectiveness and tolerability of isavuconazole and voriconazole prophylaxis in lung transplant recipients.
Palash, Samanta, Cornelius J, Clancy, Rachel V, Marini, Ryan M, Rivosecchi, Erin K, McCreary, Ryan K, Shields, Bonnie A, Falcione, Alex, Viehman, Lauren, Sacha, Eun Jeong, Kwak, Fernanda P, Silveira, Pablo G, Sanchez, Matthew, Morrell, Lloyd, Clarke, M Hong, Nguyen   +14 more
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Molecular Engineering Mediated Interfacial Assembly as an Artificial Extracellular Matrix Remolds Bacteria With Enhanced Abiotic Resilience

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A biomimetic artificial extracellular matrix is assembled directly on Pseudomonas fluorescens by co‐assembling amyloid‐like lysozyme and alginate at the cell surface. This conformal nanocoating acts as both a hydration buffer and a physiological priming layer, markedly enhancing desiccation tolerance, seed adhesion, storage stability, and biocontrol ...
Yuanyuan Wang, Zili Jia, Yang Li, Qitao Wang, Shuai Hou, Lei Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source