ArticleMicrobiology spectrum2021
An Oral Fluorouracil Prodrug, Capecitabine, Mitigates a Gram-Positive Systemic Infection in Mice.
Article in Microbiology spectrum, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The β-lactam adjuvant guanosine potentiates anti-folate antibiotics and pyrimidine synthesis inhibitors by depleting thymidine in methicillin-resistantbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Gut microbiota in immunomodulation and infection prevention among multiple myeloma patients after chemotherapy: current evidence and clinical prospects.American journal of cancer research · 2025Review
- Drug interactions between cephalosporins and 5-FU-based chemotherapy in the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancer - an exploratory cohort analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Antibacterial Prodrugs to Overcome Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Inhibition of multiple staphylococcal growth states by a small molecule that disrupts membrane fluidity and voltage.mSphere · 2024Article
- High-Throughput Screening of Natural Product and Synthetic Molecule Libraries for Antibacterial Drug Discovery.Metabolites · 2023Review
- Repurposing the PDMA-approved drugs in Japan using an insect model of staphylococcal infection.FEMS microbes · 2022Article
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Abstract
New classes of antibiotics are needed to fight bacterial infections, and repurposing existing drugs as antibiotics may enable rapid deployment of new treatments. Screens for antibacterials have been traditionally performed in standard laboratory media, but bacterial pathogens experience very different environmental conditions during infection, including nutrient limitation. To introduce the next generation of researchers to modern drug discovery methods, we developed a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) in which undergraduate students screened a library of FDA-approved drugs for their ability, in a nutrient-poor medium, to prevent the growth of the human Gram-negative bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. The nine drugs identified all disrupt DNA metabolism in bacteria and eukaryotes. One of the hit compounds, capecitabine, is a well-tolerated oncology drug that is administered orally, a preferred treatment route. We demonstrated that capecitabine is more effective at inhibiting
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