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Bioluminescent sensor proteins for point-of-care therapeutic drug monitoring

Kai Johnsson, Luc Reymond, Luc Patiny, Rudolf Griss, Alberto Schena

For many drugs, finding the balance between efficacy and toxicity requires monitoring their concentrations in the patient's blood. Quantifying drug levels at the bedside or at home would have advantages in terms of therapeutic outcome and convenience, but ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

A method to identify and validate mitochondrial modulators using mammalian cells and the worm C-elegans

Johan Auwerx, Laurent Mouchiroud, Pénélope Andreux, Richardus Houtkooper, Xu Wang, Norman Lionel Moullan, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Virginija Jovaisaite, Sabrina Bichet

Mitochondria are semi-autonomous organelles regulated by a complex network of proteins that are vital for many cellular functions. Because mitochondrial modulators can impact many aspects of cellular homeostasis, their identification and validation has pro ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Who will develop new antibacterial agents?

Stewart Cole

The golden age of antimicrobial drug development is a distant memory, and the likelihood of there being another seems slim. In part, this is because the pharmaceutical industry, which has now adopted an unsustainable business model, abandoned the anti-infe ...

Royal Soc2014

New antituberculosis drugs, regimens, and adjunct therapies: needs, advances, and future prospects

Stewart Cole

About 1.3 million people died of tuberculosis in 2012, despite availability of effective drug treatment. Barriers to improvements in outcomes include long treatment duration (resulting in poor patient adherence and loss of patients to follow-up), complex r ...

Elsevier Science Inc2014

Drug concentration prediction and delivery

Giovanni De Micheli, Alena Simalatsar, Wenqi You Dubout

In medical practice, the decision-making process regarding drug dose is critical to patients’ health and recovery. For drugs with narrow therapeutic ranges, the medical doctor decides the quantity (dose amount) and frequency (dose interval) on the basis of ...

2014

From natural product to marketed drug: the tiacumicin odyssey

Jieping Zhu

The first members of the tiacumicin family of antibiotics, encompassing more than 40 compounds, were isolated in 1975. Structurally, the core aglycon is an 18-membered macrolactone having two conjugated diene units, one isolated double bond, 5 stereogenic ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2013

Bioluminescent sensor proteins for point-of-care therapeutic drug monitoring

Rudolf Griss

To ensure efficacy but avoid toxicity, many drugs require monitoring of their concentrations in the patient’s blood during therapy. Currently, therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is done in diagnostic laboratories that need trained personnel and expensive in ...

EPFL2013

Sensing Acetylcholine and Anticholinesterase Compounds

Kai Johnsson, Alberto Schena

Acetylcholine is a key neurotransmitter, and anticholinesterase agents are essential compounds used as medical drugs, pesticides, and chemical warfare agents. A semisynthetic fluorescence-based probe for the direct, real-time detection of acetylcholine and ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Drug development: longer-lived proteins

Stephane Kontos, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

Protein therapeutics represent a powerful class of clinically approved drugs for the prevention and treatment of various diseases. Once administered, the biological fate of protein therapeutics is governed by the body's various complex biochemical and biop ...

2012

A Drug Administration Decision Support System

Giovanni De Micheli, Alena Simalatsar, Wenqi You Dubout

Drug delivery is one of the most common clinical routines in hospitals, and is critical to patients’ health and recovery. It includes a decision making process in which a medical doctor decides the amount (dose) and frequency (dose interval) on the basis o ...

2012

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