Title:Targeting Bacterial Membrane Proteins to Explore the Beneficial
Effects of Natural Products: New Antibiotics against Drug Resistance
Volume: 29
Issue: 12
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天然产物,细菌膜蛋白,抗生素耐药性,药物开发,外排泵,酶。
摘要: 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.