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  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,449 Views
11 Pages

25 March 2020

A novel oxazolidinone with cyclic amidrazone, delpazolid (LCB01-0371), was synthesized by LegoChem BioSciences, Inc. (Daejeon, Korea). Delpazolid can improve the minimum bactericidal concentration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and significantly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Development 2019)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,650 Views
27 Pages

New Oxazolidinones for Tuberculosis: Are Novel Treatments on the Horizon?

  • Ricky Hao Chen,
  • Andrew Burke,
  • Jin-Gun Cho,
  • Jan-Willem Alffenaar and
  • Lina Davies Forsman

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a global health concern. Standard treatment involves the use of linezolid, a repurposed oxazolidinone. It is associated with severe adverse effects, including myelosuppression and mitochondrial toxicity. A...

(This article belongs to the Section Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,291 Views
24 Pages

An Overview of Bioactive 1,3-Oxazole-Containing Alkaloids from Marine Organisms

  • Jinyun Chen,
  • Sunyan Lv,
  • Jia Liu,
  • Yanlei Yu and ,
  • Hong Wang and
  • Huawei Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 December 2021

1,3-Oxazole chemicals are a unique class of five-membered monocyclic heteroarenes, containing a nitrogen atom and an oxygen. These alkaloids have attracted extensive attention from medicinal chemists and pharmacologists owing to their diverse arrays...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chemistry and Biomedical Potential of Marine Natural Products)
  • Review
  • Open Access
151 Citations
17,776 Views
13 Pages

Oxazolidinone Antibiotics: Chemical, Biological and Analytical Aspects

  • Claudia Foti,
  • Anna Piperno,
  • Angela Scala and
  • Ottavia Giuffrè

14 July 2021

This review covers the main aspects concerning the chemistry, the biological activity and the analytical determination of oxazolidinones, the only new class of synthetic antibiotics advanced in clinical use over the past 50 years. They are characteri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Featured Reviews in Applied Chemistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,624 Views
23 Pages

Current Status and Perspectives of Antibacterial Agents Belonging to 2-Oxazolidinones

  • Jessica Ceramella,
  • Annaluisa Mariconda,
  • Domenico Iacopetta,
  • Maria Marra and ,
  • Alessia Catalano,
  • Paola Checconi,
  • Stefano Aquaro,
  • Carmela Saturnino,
  • Pasquale Longo and
  • Maria Stefania Sinicropi
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

In the last three decades, 2-oxazolidinones have emerged as an important class of inhibitors of bacterial protein synthesis, effective in the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. From a public health perspective, the importanc...

(This article belongs to the Topic Challenges and Future Prospects of Antibacterial Therapy, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,122 Views
14 Pages

Comparative In Vitro Drug Susceptibility Study of Five Oxazolidinones Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Hainan, China

  • Jinhui Dong,
  • Qian Cheng,
  • Chuanning Tang,
  • Yeteng Zhong and ,
  • Jieying Wang,
  • Meiping Lv,
  • Zhuolin Chen,
  • Peibo Li,
  • Ming Luo and
  • Hua Pei
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

24 February 2025

Oxazolidinones, novel synthetic antibacterials, inhibit protein biosynthesis and show potent activity against Gram-positive bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). In this study, we aimed to compare the in vitro activity of linezolid (L...