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Antje Pokorny

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Raskovic D, Alvarado G, Hines K, Xu L, Gatto C, Wilkinson B, et al.
Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr . 2024 Nov; 1867(1):184395. PMID: 39500386
Staphylococcus aureus readily adapts to various environments and quickly develops antibiotic resistance, which has led to an increase in multidrug-resistant infections. Hence, S. aureus presents a significant global health issue...
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Barbarek S, Shah R, Paul S, Alvarado G, Appala K, Phillips C, et al.
J Bacteriol . 2024 Jul; 206(7):e0018724. PMID: 38953643
Importance: We show that can use its known ability to incorporate exogenous fatty acids to enhance its growth at low temperatures. Individual species of phosphatidylglycerols and diglycosyldiacylglycerols bearing one or...
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Raskovic D, Alvarado G, Hines K, Xu L, Gatto C, Wilkinson B, et al.
bioRxiv . 2024 May; PMID: 38746422
readily adapts to various environments and quickly develops antibiotic resistance, which has led to an increase in multidrug-resistant infections. Hence, presents a significant global health issue and its adaptations to...
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Barbarek S, Shah R, Paul S, Alvarado G, Appala K, Henderson E, et al.
bioRxiv . 2024 Feb; PMID: 38352554
It is well established that can incorporate exogenous straight-chain unsaturated fatty acids (SCUFAs) into membrane phospho- and glyco-lipids from various sources in supplemented culture media, and when growing in an...
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Wu T, Kumar M, Zhang J, Zhao S, Drobizhev M, McCollum M, et al.
Sci Adv . 2023 Mar; 9(9):eadd2058. PMID: 36857451
Synaptic zinc ion (Zn) has emerged as a key neuromodulator in the brain. However, the lack of research tools for directly tracking synaptic Zn in the brain of awake animals...
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Pokorny A, Almeida P
J Membr Biol . 2021 Feb; 254(1):97-108. PMID: 33620544
The mechanism of the antimicrobial peptide daptomycin is reviewed and discussed. Daptomycin is a last-resort antibiotic in current use against drug-resistant bacterial infections. Many models have been proposed for its...
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Hines K, Alvarado G, Chen X, Gatto C, Pokorny A, Alonzo 3rd F, et al.
mSphere . 2020 Jun; 5(3). PMID: 32554713
can incorporate exogenous straight-chain unsaturated and saturated fatty acids (SCUFAs and SCFAs, respectively) to replace some of the normally biosynthesized branched-chain fatty acids and SCFAs. In this study, the impact...
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Pokorny A, Khatib T, Stevenson H
J Phys Chem B . 2018 Sep; 122(39):9137-9146. PMID: 30247034
Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide of clinical importance in the treatment of multidrug resistant infections, including those caused by methicillin-resistant S. aureus strains. Similar to many other antimicrobial peptides, daptomycin...
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Kreutzberger M, Pokorny A, Almeida P
Langmuir . 2017 Nov; 33(47):13669-13679. PMID: 29130685
Daptomycin is an acidic, 13-amino acid, cyclic polypeptide that contains a number of nonproteinogenic residues and is modified at its N-terminus with a decanoyl chain. It has been in clinical...
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Khatib T, Stevenson H, Yeaman M, Bayer A, Pokorny A
Antimicrob Agents Chemother . 2016 May; 60(8):5051-3. PMID: 27216066
The cytoplasmic membrane of Staphylococcus aureus contains ∼20 mol% of the net cationic lipid lysyl-phosphatidylglycerol (LPG). Elevated fractions of LPG are associated with increased resistance to cationic antibiotics, including the...