Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Aug 1, 2024
Antibiotic resistance is recognized as an imminent and growing global health threat. New antimicrobial drugs are urgently needed due to the decreasing effectiveness of conventional small-molecule antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), a class of...
Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences
Nov 1, 2023
Scutellaria sibthorpii is used in treatment of bacterial infections, pains and inflammations. The leaf was extracted by maceration and then partitioned with hexane, ethyl acetate and n-butanol. The extract was screened for phytochemicals. The antioxi...
Independent component analysis (ICA) of bacterial transcriptomes has emerged as a powerful tool for obtaining co-regulated, independently-modulated gene sets (iModulons), inferring their activities across a range of conditions, and enabling their ass...
Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences
Sep 1, 2020
Emergence and spread of multidrug resistant (MDR) Staphylococcus aureus strains is becoming major challenge in treatment of soft tissue infections. This study aimed to explore antimicrobial and synergistic antimicrobial potential of three commerciall...
Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences
Sep 1, 2020
P. petiolosa as a typical Chinese herbal medicine has been generally utilized as Chinese native medicine formulation for treatment of chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma and pneumoconiosis. The objective of this study was to evaluate the anti-inflam...
BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive spherical bacterium commonly present in nasal fossae and in the skin of healthy people; however, in high quantities, it can lead to complications that compromise health. The pathologies involved in...
Metallomics : integrated biometal science
Mar 20, 2019
One potential source of new antibacterials is through probing existing chemical libraries for copper-dependent inhibitors (CDIs), i.e., molecules with antibiotic activity only in the presence of copper. Recently, our group demonstrated that previousl...
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences
Dec 19, 2018
A strain of Bacillus methylotrophicus was isolated from a soil sample collected in Aswan eastern desert, which is known for its extremely arid climate. After fermentation of the strain in liquid culture and subsequent extraction, a bioassay-guided is...
This paper described the extraction procedure and determination method for the total flavonoids in ethanol extract from the leaves of Abutilon theophrasti Medic., and evaluated antibacterial and antioxidant activity. Maximum extraction yield was achi...