[HTML][HTML] Progress in alternative strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance: Focus on antibiotics

J Murugaiyan, PA Kumar, GS Rao, K Iskandar… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance, and, in a broader perspective, antimicrobial resistance (AMR),
continues to evolve and spread beyond all boundaries. As a result, infectious diseases have …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism of antimicrobial peptides: antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and antibiofilm activities

Y Luo, Y Song - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are regarded as a new generation of antibiotics. Besides
antimicrobial activity, AMPs also have antibiofilm, immune-regulatory, and other activities …

Identification of antimicrobial peptides from the human gut microbiome using deep learning

Y Ma, Z Guo, B Xia, Y Zhang, X Liu, Y Yu, N Tang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The human gut microbiome encodes a large variety of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), but
the short lengths of AMPs pose a challenge for computational prediction. Here we combined …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): A promising class of antimicrobial compounds

M Erdem Büyükkiraz, Z Kesmen - Journal of applied …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are compounds, which have inhibitory activity against
microorganisms. In the last decades, AMPs have become powerful alternative agents that …

[HTML][HTML] The multifaceted nature of antimicrobial peptides: Current synthetic chemistry approaches and future directions

BH Gan, J Gaynord, SM Rowe, T Deingruber… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacterial infections caused by 'superbugs' are increasing globally, and conventional
antibiotics are becoming less effective against these bacteria, such that we risk entering a …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptides: an update on classifications and databases

A Bin Hafeez, X Jiang, PJ Bergen, Y Zhu - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are distributed across all kingdoms of life and are an
indispensable component of host defenses. They consist of predominantly short cationic …

The value of antimicrobial peptides in the age of resistance

M Magana, M Pushpanathan, AL Santos… - The lancet infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Accelerating growth and global expansion of antimicrobial resistance has deepened the
need for discovery of novel antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial peptides have clear …

[HTML][HTML] Role of metabolic endotoxemia in systemic inflammation and potential interventions

S Mohammad, C Thiemermann - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Diet-induced metabolic endotoxemia is an important factor in the development of many
chronic diseases in animals and man. The gut epithelium is an efficient barrier that prevents …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerated antimicrobial discovery via deep generative models and molecular dynamics simulations

P Das, T Sercu, K Wadhawan, I Padhi… - Nature Biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
The de novo design of antimicrobial therapeutics involves the exploration of a vast chemical
repertoire to find compounds with broad-spectrum potency and low toxicity. Here, we report …

Self‐assembling peptide‐based hydrogels for wound tissue repair

T Guan, J Li, C Chen, Y Liu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wound healing is a long‐term, multistage biological process that includes hemostasis,
inflammation, proliferation, and tissue remodeling and requires intelligent designs to provide …