The swift killing kinetics is an attractive characteristics of wide-spectrum antimicrobial activity
of peptides, which made them generate great attention as possible antitoxin pharmaceutics …

Highlights•Various peptide design methods have facilitated peptide–drug
development.•Only a few peptide therapeutics have entered the antibiotic market in the past …

Antimicrobial resistance is increasing at an alarming rate and the number of new antibiotics
developed and approved has decreased in the last decades, basically for economic and …

Because the intensive use of antibiotics has led to a large variety of resistant bacterial
strains, therapeutic measures have become increasingly challenging. In order to ensure …

Antimicrobial‐peptide‐based therapies could represent a reliable alternative to overcome
antibiotic resistance, as they offer potential advantages such as rapid microbicidal activity …

The emergence of drug-resistant pathogenic microbial strains has created an urgent need
for new anti-infective molecule development. In order to avoid the spread of bacterial …

Due to their broad-spectrum antibacterial activity and low incidence of drug resistance,
natural antimicrobial peptides have become a potential alternative to antibiotics. In addition …

The emergence of antimicrobial-resistant infections is still a major concern for public health
worldwide. The number of pathogenic microorganisms capable of resisting common …

The effectiveness of antibiotics is greatly enhanced by their ability to target invasive
organisms involved in the ancient evolutionary battle between hosts and pathogens …

Peptides are naturally produced by all organisms and exhibit a wide range of physiological,
immunomodulatory, and wound healing functions. Furthermore, they can provide with …