Development and challenges of antimicrobial peptides for therapeutic applications

CH Chen, TK Lu - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
More than 3000 antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been discovered, seven of which have
been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Now commercialized, these …

Peptide design principles for antimicrobial applications

MDT Torres, S Sothiselvam, TK Lu… - Journal of molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
The increased incidence of bacterial resistance to available antibiotics represents a major
global health problem and highlights the need for novel anti-infective therapies …

[HTML][HTML] Antidepressant drugs act by directly binding to TRKB neurotrophin receptors

PC Casarotto, M Girych, SM Fred, V Kovaleva… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
It is unclear how binding of antidepressant drugs to their targets gives rise to the clinical
antidepressant effect. We discovered that the transmembrane domain of tyrosine kinase …

Membrane active antimicrobial peptides: translating mechanistic insights to design

J Li, JJ Koh, S Liu, R Lakshminarayanan… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising next generation antibiotics that hold great
potential for combating bacterial resistance. AMPs can be both bacteriostatic and …

Molecular dynamics simulations of membrane permeability

RM Venable, A Kramer, RW Pastor - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
This Review illustrates the evaluation of permeability of lipid membranes from molecular
dynamics (MD) simulation primarily using water and oxygen as examples. Membrane …

Multiscale simulations of biological membranes: the challenge to understand biological phenomena in a living substance

G Enkavi, M Javanainen, W Kulig, T Róg… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular
composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by …

Advancements in antimicrobial nanoscale materials and self-assembling systems

JA Doolan, GT Williams, KLF Hilton… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial resistance is directly responsible for more deaths per year than either
HIV/AIDS or malaria and is predicted to incur a cumulative societal financial burden of at …

Mechanistic landscape of membrane-permeabilizing peptides

S Guha, J Ghimire, E Wu, WC Wimley - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Membrane permeabilizing peptides (MPPs) are as ubiquitous as the lipid bilayer
membranes they act upon. Produced by all forms of life, most membrane permeabilizing …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): roles, functions and mechanism of action

R Seyfi, FA Kahaki, T Ebrahimi… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a crucial part of innate immunity that exist in the most of
living organisms. In fact, AMPs have ability to incite the innate immune response and combat …

Recent developments on production, purification and biological activity of marine peptides

K Sridhar, BS Inbaraj, BH Chen - Food Research International, 2021 - Elsevier
Marine peptides are one of the richest sources of structurally diverse bioactive compounds
and a considerable attention has been drawn towards their production and bioactivity …