Antimicrobial peptides, which constitute an important component of innate immunity in
animal and plant kingdom, are ubiquitously distributed in nature. However, they differ widely …

Recent increase of antibiotic-resistant pathogens demands exploration of novel
antimicrobial molecules with unexploited mechanisms. Several hundred host defense …

Novel combinatorial libraries consisting of simplified amino acid sequences were designed
to screen for peptides active against the Candida albicans membrane. A novel decapeptide …

Micro‐organism resistance is an important challenge in modern medicine due to the global
uncontrolled use of antibiotics. Natural and synthetic antimicrobial peptides (AMP s) …

In recent years, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have become an emerging area of focus
when developing therapeutics hot spot residues of proteins are dominant against infections …

Highlights•Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem of our era.•Antimicrobial peptides are
important templates for developing new antibiotics.•Both peptide discovery and application …

To design and discover new antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with high levels of antimicrobial
activity, a number of machine-learning methods and prediction methods have been …

Multifunctionality is a common trait of many natural proteins and peptides, yet the rules to
generate such multifunctionality remain unclear. We propose that the rules defining some …

The venoms of spiders and scorpions contain a variety of chemical compounds.
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from these organisms were first discovered in the 1990s. As …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are increasingly sought-after and researched antimicrobial
agents due to its desired pharmacological properties and the continuous diminishing …