Antimicrobial peptides: mechanism of action, activity and clinical potential

QY Zhang, ZB Yan, YM Meng, XY Hong, G Shao… - Military Medical …, 2021 - Springer
The management of bacterial infections is becoming a major clinical challenge due to the
rapid evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria. As an excellent candidate to overcome …

Antimicrobial peptide synergies for fighting infectious diseases

JT Mhlongo, AY Waddad, F Albericio… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are essential elements of thehost defense system.
Characterized by heterogenous structures and broad‐spectrumaction, they are promising …

Membrane-specific binding of 4 nm lipid nanoparticles mediated by an entropy-driven interaction mechanism

L Ou, H Chen, B Yuan, K Yang - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are a leading biomimetic drug delivery platform due to their
distinctive advantages and highly tunable formulations. A mechanistic understanding of the …

Leaflet by leaflet synergistic effects of antimicrobial peptides on bacterial and mammalian membrane models

A Roy, NK Sarangi, S Ghosh… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) offer significant hope in the fight against antibiotic resistance.
Operating via a mechanism different from that of antibiotics, they target the microbial …

Synergistic entry of individual nanoparticles into mammalian cells driven by free energy decline and regulated by their sizes

Y Wei, H Chen, YX Li, K He, K Yang, HB Pang - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cell entry is one of the common prerequisites for nanomaterial applications. Despite
extensive studies on a homogeneous group of nanoparticles (NPs), fewer studies have …

Biophysical impact of lipid A modification caused by mobile colistin resistance gene on bacterial outer membranes

W Ma, X Jiang, Y Dou, Z Zhang, J Li… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Expression of mobile colistin resistance gene mcr-1 results in the addition of
phosphoethanolamine (pEtN) to the lipid A headgroup in the bacterial outer membrane (OM) …

Transition between Different Diffusion Modes of Individual Lipids during the Membrane‐Specific Action of As‐CATH4 Peptides

J Wu, C Xu, Z Ye, H Chen, Y Wang, K Yang, B Yuan - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The cell membrane permeabilization ability of immune defense antimicrobial peptides
(AMPs) is widely applied in biomedicine. Although the mechanisms of peptide–membrane …

A molecular dynamics study of cell-penetrating peptide transportan-10 (TP10): Binding, folding and insertion to transmembrane state in zwitterionic membrane

AL Bennett, KN Cranford, AL Bates, CR Sabatini… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Transportan 10 (TP10) is a 21-residue, cationic, α-helical cell-penetrating peptide
that can be used as a delivery vector for various bioactive molecules. Based on recent …

Real-time monitoring the interfacial dynamic processes at model cell membranes: Taking cell penetrating peptide TAT as an example

S Sun, Y Xia, J Liu, Y Dou, K Yang, B Yuan… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
A real-time and molecule-level monitoring of the interfacial dynamic interactions between
molecules and a cell membrane is of vital importance. Herein, taking TAT, one of the most …

Role of lipid composition in the antimicrobial peptide double cooperative effect

Y Hou, K Sugihara - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
The antimicrobial peptide double cooperative effect, where the mixture of two major
antimicrobial peptides LL-37 and HNP1 kills bacteria more efficiently while minimizing the …