Insect defensins are promising candidates for the development of potent antimicrobials
against antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). An insect defensin, DLP4 …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are the most frequent cause of sepsis,
which urgently demanding new drugs for treating infection. Two homologous insect CSαβ …

Owing to the challenges faced by conventional therapeutics, novel peptide antibiotics
against multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative bacteria need to be urgently developed …

Insect defensins are a large family of antimicrobial peptides primarily active against Gram-
positive bacteria. Here, we explore their hidden anti-Gram-negative bacterial potential via a …

Defensin from a beetle, Allomyrina dichotoma, is known to have anti-bacterial activity
against Gram-positive bacteria. This peptide, which comprises 43 amino acid residues, was …

Insect defensins are a class of small, cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides primarily active on
Gram-positive bacteria. Their roles in maggot therapy for treating chronic wound infection …

There is an urgent need to discover new active drugs to combat methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus, which is a serious threat to humans and animals and incompletely …

An antibacterial peptide was isolated from a black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens. The
molecular mass of this peptide was established as 4247.37 by matrix‐assisted laser …

Synthetic antimicrobial 9-mer peptides were designed from the amino acid sequence of an
active site of insect defensin to increase the number of positively charged amino acid …

Insects make up the largest and most diverse group of organisms on earth with several
million species to exist in total. Considering the sheer number of insect species and the vast …