Schnappinger Dirk
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065.
Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. 2015 Feb 13;5(7):a021139. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a021139.
Very few chemically novel agents have been approved for antibacterial chemotherapies during the last 50 yr. Yet new antibacterial drugs are needed to reduce the impact on global health of an increasing number of drug-resistant infections, including highly drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. This review discusses how genetic approaches can be used to study the mechanism of action of whole-cell screening hits and facilitate target-driven strategies for antimicrobial drug development.
在过去50年里,获批用于抗菌化疗的化学结构新颖的药物极少。然而,仍需要新的抗菌药物来减轻包括高度耐药形式的结核病在内的越来越多耐药感染对全球健康的影响。本综述讨论了如何利用遗传学方法来研究全细胞筛选命中物的作用机制,并促进抗菌药物开发的靶点驱动策略。