Considerations and caveats in combating ESKAPE pathogens against nosocomial infections

YX Ma, CY Wang, YY Li, J Li, QQ Wan… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella
pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter …

[HTML][HTML] Action of antimicrobial peptides against bacterial biofilms

M Yasir, MDP Willcox, D Dutta - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Microbes are known to colonize surfaces and form biofilms. These biofilms are communities
of microbes encased in a self-produced matrix that often contains polysaccharides, DNA and …

CAMPR3: a database on sequences, structures and signatures of antimicrobial peptides

FH Waghu, RS Barai, P Gurung… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are known to have family-specific sequence composition,
which can be mined for discovery and design of AMPs. Here, we present CAMPR3; an …

Antimicrobial peptides and wound healing: biological and therapeutic considerations

ML Mangoni, AM McDermott… - Experimental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Repair of tissue wounds is a fundamental process to re‐establish tissue integrity and regular
function. Importantly, infection is a major factor that hinders wound healing. Multicellular …

Bioactive peptides: A review

A Sánchez, A Vázquez - Food quality and safety, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Bioactive peptides (BP) are organic substances formed by amino acids joined by covalent
bonds known as amide or peptide bonds. Although some BP exist free in its natural source …

Self‐assembly of antimicrobial peptides on gold nanodots: against multidrug‐resistant bacteria and wound‐healing application

WY Chen, HY Chang, JK Lu, YC Huang… - Advanced Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Photoluminescent gold nanodots (Au NDs) are prepared via etching and codeposition of
hybridized ligands, an antimicrobial peptide (surfactin; SFT), and 1‐dodecanethiol (DT), on …

Contribution of amphipathicity and hydrophobicity to the antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity of β-hairpin peptides

IA Edwards, AG Elliott, AM Kavanagh… - ACS infectious …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Bacteria have acquired extensive resistance mechanisms to protect themselves against
antibiotic action. Today the bacterial membrane has become one of the “final frontiers” in the …

[HTML][HTML] DRAMP: a comprehensive data repository of antimicrobial peptides

L Fan, J Sun, M Zhou, J Zhou, X Lao, H Zheng, H Xu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The growing problem of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms results in an urgent need for
substitutes to conventional antibiotics with novel modes of action and effective activities …

Antimicrobial peptides: therapeutic potentials

SJ Kang, SJ Park, T Mishig-Ochir… - Expert review of anti …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing appearance of multidrug-resistant pathogens has created an urgent need for
suitable alternatives to current antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which act as …

Clinical applications of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): where do we stand now?

M Divyashree, MK Mani, D Reddy… - Protein and peptide …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
In this era of multi-drug resistance (MDR), antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are one of the most
promising classes of potential drug candidates to combat communicable as well as …