Bacterial quorum sensing inhibitors: Attractive alternatives for control of infectious pathogens showing multiple drug resistance

Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 68-83

  Bhardwaj, Ashima K ^a   Vinothkumar, Kittappa ^a   Rajpara, Neha ^a  

^a Area Gandhinagar   (India)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Multidrug resistance; Patents; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Quorum sensing; Quorum sensing inhibitors; Staphylococcus aureus; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUTYROLACTONE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FURANONE DERIVATIVE; GARLIC EXTRACT; HAMAMELITANNIN; MACROLIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; N PHENYL 4 (3 PHENYLTHIOURIDO)BENZENESULFONAMIDE; PATULIN; PENICILLIC ACID; PIPERAZINEDIONE; QUINOLINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BIOFILM; BIOLUMINESCENCE; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INFECTION CONTROL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO FISCHERI; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GARLIC; MICE; PATENTS AS TOPIC; PEPTIDES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84875596671     PISSN: 1574891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157489113805290809     Document Type: Review

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