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Enhanced HIV Treatments: Boronic Acid Group Improves Drug Potency
HIV infection, AIDS and AIDS-related complex (ARC) remain serious and ongoing diseases compromising the human immune system. Protease inhibitors, which interfere with the replication cycle of HIV, are...
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Ronald Raines, Ian Windsor, Michael Palte, John Lukesh | P140376US02
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Better Living Through Peptides; Improved Approach to HIV Therapy
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) affects over 1.2 million Americans each year, with approximately 50,000 new infections per year. Current treatment includes HIV combination regimens comprising rever...
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Samuel Gellman, William Horne, Lisa Johnson | P08414US03
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Nylon-3 Polymers Active Against Clostridium Difficile
Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive, endospore-forming anaerobe that causes life-threatening intestinal infections. These infections result in more than 14,000 deaths and billions of dollars in h...
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Samuel Gellman, Runhui Liu, Bernard Weisblum, Shonna McBride | P150214US02
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New and More Potent UGM Inhibitors for Treating Tuberculosis, Other Microbial Infections
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, is responsible for eight million human infections and two million deaths worldwide each year. M. tuberculosis infections can be treated...
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Laura Kiessling, Valerie Winton, Alexander Justen | P160093US02
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New Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics
The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria represents a potential health crisis. Some antibiotics (e.g., quinolones and fluoroquinolones) are losing their effectiveness while others simply don’t ...
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Douglas Weibel, Katherine Hurley, Katherine Faulkner | P140321US02
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Treating Fungal Infections with New Forazoline Compounds
Fungal infections range in severity from common athlete’s foot to life-threatening illness. Treatment can be very expensive. The cost of treating systemic Candida yeast infections exceeds $31,000 pe...
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Timothy Bugni, Thomas Wyche, David Andes, Douglas Braun | P130274US02
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Treating Staph Infections, Toxic Shock Syndrome by Disrupting Bacteria Quorum Sensing
‘Staph’ infections, particularly by Staphylococcus aureus strains, can cause skin ailments and more serious conditions like heart valve inflammation and toxic shock syndrome. These strains...
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Helen Blackwell, Danielle Wittenwyler, Yiftah Tal Gan | P130070US02
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Antiviral Peptides and Methods for Inducing Cellular Resistance to Infection
Influenza virus causes millions of infections each year worldwide. Human parainfluenza virus (PIV) types 1,2,3 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) types A and B are the major viral pathogens respons...
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Curtis Brandt, Hermann Bultmann | P03289US
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A Supply of the Antibiotic Oligomycin
Oligomycin is a highly stable macrolide antibiotic isolated from the fungus Streptomyces diastochromogenes. It is a potent inhibitor of mitochondrial ATPase and phosphoryl group transfer.
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Glenn Chambliss | P04054US
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Inhibitors of Ebola and Other Filoviruses
Ebola, a negative strand RNA virus in the family Filoviridae, is among the most lethal human pathogens, causing death in 50 to 90 percent of cases. This virus is highly contagious in aerosol form and ...
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Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Shinji Watanabe, Yasuko Hatta | P09098US02
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Small Molecule Therapeutics to Inhibit HPV Infection
Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are the most common sexually transmitted pathogens. These small DNA viruses are associated with almost all cervical cancers and 20 to 30 percent of head and neck cancers....
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Paul Ahlquist, Paul Lambert, Dohun Pyeon, Shane Pearce | P07490US02
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Method for Modulating Microbial Quorum Sensing
Bacteria that use quorum sensing are thought to be involved in two thirds of human bacterial infections. These bacteria produce acyl-homoserine lactones (AHL), which they use to gauge population densi...
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Jo Handelsman, Bradley Borlee | P04217US02
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Antibacterial Agents Using Small Molecule Macroarrays
Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive bacterium responsible for many infectious diseases, including toxic shock syndrome, food poisoning and topical skin infections. Although S. aureus is usually a...
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Helen Blackwell, Matthew Bowman, Jennifer Campbell Butler, Joseph Stringer | P06361US
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Novel Antibacterial Agents That Modulate Quorum Sensing and Are Effective at Physiological pH
Quorum sensing is a process used by some bacteria to coordinate behavior based on local population density. To communicate, bacteria release signaling molecules into the environment. When a certain nu...
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Helen Blackwell, Christine McInnis | P09045US02
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Synthetic Ligands Capable of Strongly Inhibiting or Inducing Quorum Sensing in Bacteria
Quorum sensing is a process used by some bacteria to coordinate behavior based on local population density. To communicate, bacteria release signaling molecules, including low molecular weight ligands...
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Helen Blackwell, Grant Geske, Jennifer Campbell Butler | P07404US
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Reverse Genetics Approach for Generating Ebola Virus and Other Filoviruses from Cloned DNA
Ebola virus, a negative strand RNA virus in the family Filoviridae, is among the most lethal human pathogens. Efforts to develop treatments for Ebola infections have been hampered by a lack of effecti...
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Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Gabriele Neumann, Luke Jasenosky | P01214US
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Receptor For Bacillus anthracis Toxin
Infection with Bacillus anthracis, the spore-forming causative agent of anthrax, can result in either a generally benign, self-limiting cutaneous disease or a more serious and often fatal systemic dis...
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John Young, Kenneth Bradley, R. John Collier, Jeremy Mogridge | P00305US
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Beta-Peptides with Antifungal Activity
Fungal infections, such as infections by the yeast Candida albicans, are a persistent health problem in some patient populations. Topical yeast infections affect the mouth, vagina, skin, stomach and u...
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Samuel Gellman, Sean Palecek, William Pomerantz, Amy Karlsson | P06201US
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Novel Antibacterial Small Molecules
As the incidence of antibiotic resistance among bacteria continues to rise, the discovery of new antibacterial compounds has become increasingly critical to fighting infectious disease. According to t...
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Helen Blackwell, Matthew Bowman, Joseph Stringer | P07517US
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Novel Antiviral Peptides Against Influenza Virus
Influenza viruses cause morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the United States, influenza is responsible for approximately 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths each year.
Two classes of antiv...
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Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Curtis Brandt, Jeremy Jones | P08294US