Title:Targeting Bacterial Membrane Proteins to Explore the Beneficial
Effects of Natural Products: New Antibiotics against Drug Resistance
Volume: 29
Issue: 12
Author(s): Piying Huang, Zhe Wang, Kun Cai, Liangwan Wei, Yindi Chu, Mingquan Guo*Enguo Fan*
Affiliation:
- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture,
Wuhan Botanical Garden, The Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Wuhan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Institute
of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union
Medical College, Beijing, China
- College of Life Sciences, Linyi University, Linyi, 276005, China
Keywords:
Natural products, bacterial membrane proteins, antibiotic resistance, drug development, efflux pumps, enzymes.
Abstract: Antibiotic resistance is currently a world health crisis that urges the development of
new antibacterial substances. To this end, natural products, including flavonoids, alkaloids,
terpenoids, steroids, peptides and organic acids play a vital role in the development of medicines
and thus constitute a rich source in clinical practices, providing an important source of
drugs directly or for the screen of lead compounds for new antibiotic development. Because
membrane proteins, which comprise more than 60% of the current clinical drug targets, play
crucial roles in signal transduction, transport, bacterial pathogenicity and drug resistance, as
well as immunogenicity, it is our aim to summarize those natural products with different
structures that target bacterial membrane proteins, such as efflux pumps and enzymes, to provide
an overview for the development of new antibiotics to deal with antibiotic resistance.