Publications by François Signorino-Gelo

Dynamic persistence of UPEC intracellular bacterial communities in a human bladder-chip model of urinary tract infection

John McKinney, Graham Knott, Neeraj Dhar, François Signorino-Gelo, Vivek Vijay Thacker, Kunal Sharma, Thomas Marie Simonet

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) proliferate within superficial bladder umbrella cells to form intracellular bacterial communities (IBCs) during early stages of urinary tract infections. However, the dynamic responses of IBCs to host stresses and anti ...

2021

Early invasion of the bladder wall by solitary bacteria protects UPEC from antibiotics and neutrophil swarms in an organoid model

John McKinney, Graham Knott, Neeraj Dhar, Maria Clapés Cabrer, François Signorino-Gelo, Vivek Vijay Thacker, Kunal Sharma

2021

Identification of aminopyrimidine-sulfonamides as potent modulators of Wag31-mediated cell elongation in mycobacteria

Stewart Cole, Kai Johnsson, John McKinney, Graham Knott, Neeraj Dhar, Ruben Hartkoorn, Isabella Santi, Anthony Vocat, Gaëlle Séraphine Kolly, Monica Rengifo Gonzalez

There is an urgent need to discover new antitubercular agents with novel mechanisms of action in order to tackle the scourge of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Here, we report the identification of such a molecule - an AminoPYrimidine-Sulfonamide (APYS1) that ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Antitubercular drugs for an old target: GSK693 as a promising InhA direct inhibitor

John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, François Signorino-Gelo

Despite being one of the first antitubercular agents identified, isoniazid (INH) is still the most prescribed drug for prophylaxis and tuberculosis (TB) treatment and, together with rifampicin, the pillars of current chemotherapy. A high percentage of ison ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Rapid Cytolysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Faropenem, an Orally Bioavailable beta-Lactam Antibiotic

John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, François Signorino-Gelo

Recent clinical studies indicate that meropenem, a beta-lactam antibiotic, is a promising candidate for therapy of drug-resistant tuberculosis. However, meropenem is chemically unstable, requires frequent intravenous injection, and must be combined with a ...

American Society for Microbiology2015

4-Aminoquinolone Piperidine Amides: Noncovalent Inhibitors of DprE1 with Long Residence Time and Potent Antimycobacterial Activity

John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres, François Signorino-Gelo

4-Aminoquinolone piperidine amides (AQs) were identified as a novel scaffold starting from a whole cell screen, with potent cidality on Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Evaluation of the minimum inhibitory concentrations, followed by whole genome sequenci ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Dynamic Persistence of Antibiotic-Stressed Mycobacteria

John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, François Signorino-Gelo, Katrin Esther Schneider

Exposure of an isogenic bacterial population to a cidal antibiotic typically fails to eliminate a small fraction of refractory cells. Historically, fractional killing has been attributed to infrequently dividing or nondividing "persisters." Using microflui ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2013