Knowledge of the mechanism of action of antimicrobial agents is crucial for the development of new compounds to combat microbial pathogens. To this end, computational studies on the interaction of known membrane-active antimicrobial polymers with phospholipid bilayers reveal spontaneous membrane insertion and cooperative action at low and high concentrations, respectively. In late-stage attack,...

Extreme ecosystems can be a source of untapped micro-organisms able to produce novel bioactive compounds of industrial interest. Consequently, in this work, 32 Actinomycetes were isolated from 6 soil samples collected from Algerian Sahara in searching for untapped producers of novel antimicrobial compounds. All the isolates were further subjected to antimicrobial screening against pathogenic ba...

A naturally occurring, gram-negative, nonobligate predator bacterial strain 679-2, exhibits broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity that is due, in part, to the production of three extracellular compounds. Antimicrobial-activity-directed fractionation of a culture of strain 679-2 against a panel of microorganisms has led to the isolation of three compounds: pyrrolnitrin, maculosin, and a new comp...

Antimicrobial assays are important tools to test and screen the inhibitory effects of myriad compounds against microorganisms before establishing their inhibitory spectra (broad vs. narrow). Knowledge of the inhibitory spectra of antimicrobial compounds before their application in the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, and medicine is crucial. Various conventional and contemporary methods ar...

Antimicrobial assays are important tools to test and screen the inhibitory effects of myriad compounds against microorganisms before establishing their inhibitory spectra (broad vs. narrow). Knowledge of the inhibitory spectra of antimicrobial compounds before their application in the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, and medicine is crucial. Various conventional and contemporary methods ar...

Some new heterocyclic compounds containing isoxazole, pyrazole and oxadiazole ring systems were prepared from various chalcones. The synthesized compounds have been characterized by elemental analysis and spectral methods. These compounds were screened for their antimicrobial activities.

The human β-site amyloid cleaving enzyme (BACE1) has been considered as an effective drug target for treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this study, Urechis unicinctus (U. unicinctus), which is a Far East specialty food known as innkeeper worm, ethanol extract was studied by bioassay-directed fractionation and isolation to examine its potential β-site amyloid cleaving enzyme inhibitory an...

Sponges are the most prolific marine organisms with respect to their arsenal of bioactive compounds including antimicrobials. However, the majority of these substances are probably not produced by the sponge itself, but rather by bacteria or fungi that are associated with their host. This review for the first time provides a comprehensive overview of antimicrobial compounds that are known to be...

In the present communication, a series of novel 1-(2-(3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-5-(pyridin-4yl)-1,3,4-oxadiazol-3(2H)-yl)-3-(aryl)prop-2-en-1-ones 5a-o have been efficiently synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities. The results of antimicrobial study reveal the compounds 5f, 5g and 5k-m to be among the most potent antimicrobial agen...

Two-component systems (TCSs) have the potential to be an effective target of the antimicrobials, and thus received much attention in recent years. VicK/VicR is one of TCSs in Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae), which is essential for pneumococcal survival. We have previously obtained several Traditional Chinese Medicine monomers using a computer-based screening. In this study, either alon...