Production of effective phyto-antimicrobials via metabolic engineering strategies.

The emerging outbreak of infectious diseases poses challenge and threatens human survival. The indiscriminate use and drying pipelines of antibiotic arsenals has led to the alarming rise of drug-resistant pathogens, projecting a serious concern. The rising antimicrobial resistance and redundancy of antibiotic discovery platforms (ADPs) have highlighted the growing concern to discover new antibiotics, necessitating the exploration of natural products as effective alternatives to counter drug resistance. In recent time, plants are extensively investigated in search of the "phyto-therapeutics", attributed to their potential efficacy and tackling majority of the drug-resistant mechanisms including biofilms, efflux pumps, cell communication and membrane proteins. However, major challenges in geographical fluctuations, low concentration in plants, and over-harvestation of natural resources restricts availability and complete utilization of phyto-therapeutics as antimicrobials. Recent advances in scientific interventions have been instrumental in the production of novel antimicrobials, via metabolic engineering approaches in plant systems. The progress in plant genome editing, pathway reconstitution and expression has defined new paradigms in successful production of antimicrobials in the post antibiotic era. The thematic review discusses the existing and emerging significance of phyto-therapeutics in tackling antimicrobial resistance, employing metabolic engineering approaches. The prevailing scenario of antimicrobial resistance and the mechanisms, the traditional and modern drug-discovery approaches in addressing antimicrobial resistance, with an emphasis on advances in metabolic engineering approaches for antimicrobial production, and the plausible solutions for tackling drug-resistant pathogens, forms the key theme of the article.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

• Publication date

  2022-03-10

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2174/1568026622666220310104645PMID 35272597
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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