Antibiotic interactions using liposomes as model lipid membranes

• Type: Another Publication in an International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2019

Authors

Pinheiro, M (Author) Other; Magalhaes, J (Author) Other; Salette Reis (Author) FFUP

Journal

Title: Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Vol. 222

Pages: 36-46

ISSN: 0009-3084

Publisher: Elsevier

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Authenticus ID: P-00Q-JSF

DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2019.05.002

Abstract (EN): Lipidomics and proteomics have undergone a tremendous revolution, and the knowledge about drugs' mechanism of action in biological membranes has been deepened. Methods to study the interactions of drugs with biological membranes have opened new perspectives to rational drug design, based not only in the pharmacological target of the drugs but also on the interaction with biological membranes. These methods expand our ability to acquire the ADME-Tox profile of drugs, simplifying the complexity of biological membranes. Particularly, antibiotic resistance is considered one of the greatest threats to human health, being the prospects for replacing current antimicrobial drugs extremely scarce. With the decline of the discovery and the emergence of multidrug resistant pathogens to the existing arsenal, the objective in the development of new drugs to combat the resistance to antibiotics has been replaced by the modification of existing antibiotics. Therefore, drug-membrane interaction studies using membrane models of the eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell membranes, associated with a broad of complementary methods, may contribute to a deep picture concerning the effect of antibiotics upon their intake until their pharmacological target. This critical review will discuss the relevance of a range of different methods to study the interaction of antibiotic drugs using liposomes as biological membranes models. The advantages and the limitations of these methods will be discussed and future perspectives in this field will be proposed.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11