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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Structure-based discovery of glycomimetic FmlH ligands as inhibitors of bacterial adhesion during urinary tract infection.

Vasilios Kalas, Michael E Hibbing, Amarendar Reddy Maddirala, Ryan Chugani, Jerome S Pinkner, Laurel K Mydock-McGrane, Matt S Conover, James W Janetka, Scott J Hultgren

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The role of adhesins ofGut microbes · 2026
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  2. Unnatural C6-Substituted d-Galactosides as Attenuated Substrates of Glycosyl Hydrolases.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  5. Computational Pipeline for Accelerating the Design of Glycomimetics.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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  14. A Bird's-Eye View of the Pathophysiologic Role of the Human Urobiota in Health and Disease: Can We Modulate It?Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2024
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  16. Immune defenses in the urinary tract.Trends in immunology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vasilios KalasCenter for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Michael E HibbingCenter for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Amarendar Reddy MaddiralaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Ryan ChuganiDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Jerome S PinknerCenter for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Laurel K Mydock-McGraneDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Matt S ConoverCenter for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
James W JanetkaCenter for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110; janetkaj@wustl.edu hultgren@wustl.edu.
Scott J HultgrenCenter for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110; janetkaj@wustl.edu hultgren@wustl.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8785-564X
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

Washington University Center for Cellular ImagingP30CA091842 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI TIMOTHY J. EBERLEIN · 2001 to 2026
$128.0M
WU INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCESUL1TR002345 · NCATS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI William G. Powderly · 2017 to 2026
$97.8M
NATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE AWARD-MEDICAL SCIENTISTT32GM007200 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI YOKOYAMA, WAYNE M. · 1985 to 2024
$59.8M
SMALL MOLECULE BACTERIAL LECTIN ANTAGONISTS FOR UTI TREATMENT AND PREVENTIONR01DK108840 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI HULTGREN, SCOTT J., JANETKA, JAMES W · 2017 to 2020
$2.1M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002345NCI NIH HHS P30 CA091842NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK108840NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007200
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment of bacterial infections is becoming a serious clinical challenge due to the global dissemination of multidrug antibiotic resistance, necessitating the search for alternative treatments to disarm the virulence mechanisms underlying these infections. Uropathogenic

Indexed as

Adhesins, Escherichia coliAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial AdhesionCrystallography, X-RayDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalEscherichia coli InfectionsFemaleGalactosidesHumansKidneyLigandsMice, Inbred C3HMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular MimicryUrinary Tract InfectionsAdhesins, Escherichia coliAnti-Bacterial AgentsFmlH protein, E coliGalactosidesLigandsantibiotic-sparing therapeuticglycomimeticshost–pathogen interactionsstructure-based drug designurinary tract infection

Identifiers

PMID29507247
PMCPMC5866590
OpenAlexW2794400996

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