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Endolysins as emerging alternative therapeutic agents to counter drug-resistant infections.

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This review primarily reviews the recent advancements made in the evaluation of therapeutic potential of endolysins, including their origin, host range, applications and synergy with conventional and non conventional antimicrobial agents.
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This article is published in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.The article was published on 2020-02-01. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lysin.

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Strategies to Combat Multidrug-Resistant and Persistent Infectious Diseases.

TL;DR: New anti-infectious strategies against multidrug-resistant (MDR) and persistent bacteria, as well as the rescue of Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved compounds (drug repurposing), are being explored.
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Phage-Encoded Endolysins.

TL;DR: In this paper, the synergy between endolysins and antibiotics is discussed, as well as the formulation of endolysin formulations for clinical trials involving endolySins, and the authors provide new insights into the synergy and synergy between the two drugs.
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A Novel Acinetobacter baumannii Bacteriophage Endolysin LysAB54 With High Antibacterial Activity Against Multiple Gram-Negative Microbes

TL;DR: In this paper, an A. baumannii bacteriophage p54 was isolated and characterized, and a novel endolysin, namely LysAB54, showing low similarity with other well-known related endolysins, was cloned, expressed, and characterized from the bacteria p54.
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Synergistic effects of endolysin Lysqdvp001 and ε-poly-lysine in controlling Vibrio parahaemolyticus and its biofilms.

TL;DR: In this article, the synergistic antibacterial effects between endolysin Lysqdvp001 and e-poly-lysine (e-PL) against Vibrio parahaemolyticus (V. parahaemicus) were investigated.
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Holins: the protein clocks of bacteriophage infections.

TL;DR: Two proteins, an endolysin and a holin, are essential for host lysis by bacteriophage, and constitute one of the most diverse functional groups, with >100 known or putative holin sequences, which form >30 ortholog groups.
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Bacteriophage lysis: mechanism and regulation.

TL;DR: The available evidence suggests that holins oligomerize to form nonspecific holes and that this hole-forming step is the regulated step in phage lysis, which is as much an essential feature of holin function as is the hole formation itself.
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Resistance to antibiotics mediated by target alterations

TL;DR: The ideal antibiotic would be produced by rational design, rather than by the modification of a natural product, because inactivating enzymes commonly provide resistance to antibiotics that, like penicillin, are derived from natural products, although such enzymes have not been found for synthetic antibiotics.
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A bacteriolytic agent that detects and kills Bacillus anthracis.

TL;DR: PlyG is shown that the PlyG lysin, isolated from the γ phage of B. anthracis, specifically kills B.Anthracis isolates and other members of the B. Anthracis ‘cluster’ of bacilli in vitro and in vivo.
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Prevention and elimination of upper respiratory colonization of mice by group A streptococci by using a bacteriophage lytic enzyme

TL;DR: It is shown that lysin represents a unique murein hydrolase that has a rapid lethal effect both in vitro and in vivo on group A streptococci, without affecting other indigenous microorganisms analyzed.
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