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ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research2023

Targeting LPS biosynthesis and transport in gram-negative bacteria in the era of multi-drug resistance.

K P Romano, D T Hung

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Review in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. LPS in gram-negative bacterial growth and physiology: outside but fully integrated.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2026
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  2. International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  3. Lipopolysaccharide-targeting treatments for multidrug-resistantExpert opinion on therapeutic targets · 2026
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  18. Novel Antibacterial Approaches and Therapeutic Strategies.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

K P RomanoDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Molecular Biology, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
D T HungThe Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Molecular Biology, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: hung@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu.
Broad Institute · US

Funding

Innovative technologies to transform antibiotic discovery. Project 4 Infection site-specific amplification of antimicrobial conjugatesU19AI142780 · NIAID · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI HUNG, DEBORAH T · 2019 to 2023
$33.9M
Targeting lipopolysaccharide transport machinery in Pseudomonas aeruginosaK08AI148581 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ROMANO, KEITH PATRICK · 2020 to 2024
$999k
NIAID NIH HHS K08 AI148581NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI142780
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gram-negative bacteria pose a major threat to human health in an era fraught with multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. Despite extensive drug discovery campaigns over the past decades, no new antibiotic target class effective against gram-negative bacteria has become available to patients since the advent of the carbapenems in 1985. Antibiotic discovery efforts against gram-negative bacteria have been hampered by limited intracellular accumulation of xenobiotics, in large part due to the impermeable cell envelope comprising lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the outer leaflet of the outer membrane, as well as a panoply of efflux pumps. The biosynthesis and transport of LPS are essential to the viability and virulence of most gram-negative bacteria. Thus, both LPS biosynthesis and transport are attractive pathways to target therapeutically. In this review, we summarize the LPS biosynthesis and transport pathways and discuss efforts to find small molecule inhibitors against targets within these pathways.

Indexed as

Bacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsAnti-Bacterial AgentsDrug Resistance, MultipleGram-Negative BacteriaHumansLipopolysaccharidesAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsLipopolysaccharidesAntibioticsCell envelopeDrug resistanceGram-negativeLipopolysaccharide

Identifiers

PMID36543281
PMCPMC9922520
OpenAlexW4312057263

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