Antimicrobial Peptides: Sources, Types, and Antibiofilm Activity

K Bhavini, A Fernandes, V Ravichandran, D Lahiri… - Natural … - taylorfrancis.com
Escalating incidences of antibiotic-resistant and multidrug-resistant microorganisms poses a
significant threat in this era. Microorganisms form biofilms by colonizing different surfaces …

Antimicrobial and antibiofilm peptides

A Di Somma, A Moretta, C Canè, A Cirillo, A Duilio - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The increasing onset of multidrug-resistant bacteria has propelled microbiology research
towards antimicrobial peptides as new possible antibiotics from natural sources …

Antimicrobial peptides for the control of biofilm formation

M Gonzalez Moreno, L Lombardi… - Current topics in …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are an abundant and varied group of molecules recognized
as the most ancient components of the innate immune system. They are found in a wide …

Potential application of antimicrobial peptides in the treatment of bacterial biofilm infections

N Strempel, J Strehmel… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
The increasing prevalence of persistent biofilm infections, such as wound infections, chronic
lung infections or medical device-related infections, which usually tolerate conventional …

Antimicrobial peptides against microbial biofilms: Efficacy, challenges, and future prospect

T Naaz, D Lahiri, S Pandit, M Nag, PK Gupta… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Surface colonization and the formation of biofilms by microbes are well acknowledged.
Communities of microorganisms are coated in these biofilms, which frequently include …

Antimicrobial peptides as a potent therapeutic regimen to quench biofilm-mediated antimicrobial resistance

A Priya, TK Swetha, SK Pandian - Microbial and Natural Macromolecules, 2021 - Elsevier
Foreground for the search and development of newer classes of antiinfective agents is
almost due to the inevitable antimicrobial resistance development by clinically important …

Combination strategies to enhance the efficacy of antimicrobial peptides against bacterial biofilms

L Grassi, G Maisetta, S Esin, G Batoni - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The great clinical significance of biofilm-associated infections and their inherent
recalcitrance to antibiotic treatment urgently demand the development of novel antibiofilm …

Dissecting the therapeutic potency of antimicrobial peptides against microbial biofilms

P Gupta, P Mishra, R Prasad… - Current Protein and …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Microbial resistance to conventional therapeutics has become a significant threat to human
society. Biofilms serve as the major virulence factor for the microorganisms by resisting the …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptides as potential anti-biofilm agents against multidrug-resistant bacteria

PY Chung, R Khanum - Journal of microbiology, immunology and infection, 2017 - Elsevier
Bacterial resistance to commonly used drugs has become a global health problem, causing
increased infection cases and mortality rate. One of the main virulence determinants in many …

Anti-biofilm peptides: a new class of quorum quenchers and their prospective therapeutic applications

A Rajput, M Kumar - Biotechnological applications of quorum sensing …, 2018 - Springer
Biofilms are the major concerns to the researchers, due to their universal distribution among
prokaryotes and involvement in antibiotic drug resistance towards conventional drugs. It led …