The Urgent Need for Developing Metallo-β-Lactamase Inhibitors
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Novel Antimicrobial Agents".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2022) | Viewed by 4197
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antibiotic resistance; protein chemistry; evolution and function of β-lactamases; metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The β-lactam class remains the largest class of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections. The widespread use of this class of antibiotics has led to the emergence of different resistance mechanisms, including (a) the production of altered penicillin-binding proteins (PBP) with lower binding affinities for most β-lactam antibiotics and (b) the production of β-lactamases, which is the most common resistance mechanism in Gram-negative bacteria. β-Lactamases can be categorized into serine-β-lactamases (SBLs) and metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs). Although SBLs have become more clinically prevalent over the past seventy years, there exist inhibitors, which can be given in combination with β-lactam containing antibiotics to treat bacteria that produce some of the SBLs. However, despite considerable efforts to develop such inhibitors, there are no clinically approved inhibitors available for MBLs, making infections from MBL-producing bacteria a severe challenge. In addition, the COVID-19 crisis further emphasizes the urgency to find MBL inhibitors because co-infections containing SBLs and MBLs have been reported in COVID-19 patients. This Special Issue focuses on characteristics of MBLs and ways to combat their action.
Dr. Zishuo Cheng
Dr. Caitlyn A. Thomas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- β-Lactamases
- metallo-β-lactamases
- inhibition
- mechanism
