[HTML][HTML] Characterization of antimicrobial peptides toward the development of novel antibiotics

W Aoki, M Ueda - Pharmaceuticals, 2013 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial agents have eradicated many infectious diseases and significantly improved
our living environment. However, abuse of antimicrobial agents has accelerated the …

Biomolecules-derived biomaterials

LP Datta, S Manchineella, T Govindaraju - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Human civilization has witnessed the use of materials-derived from biomolecules of plants
and animal origin for biomedical applications since ancient era. In recent years, precision …

[HTML][HTML] Self-assembling dipeptide antibacterial nanostructures with membrane disrupting activity

L Schnaider, S Brahmachari, NW Schmidt… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Peptide-based supramolecular assemblies are a promising class of nanomaterials with
important biomedical applications, specifically in drug delivery and tissue regeneration …

Poly (ethylene imine) s as antimicrobial agents with selective activity

KA Gibney, I Sovadinova, AI Lopez… - Macromolecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We report the structure–activity relationship in the antimicrobial activity of linear and
branched poly (ethylene imine) s (L‐and B‐PEIs) with a range of molecular weights …

Comparative mechanistic studies of brilacidin, daptomycin, and the antimicrobial peptide LL16

B Mensa, GL Howell, R Scott… - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Brilacidin (PMX30063) has shown potent bactericidal activity against drug-resistant and-
susceptible strains of multiple Gram-negative and Gram-positive pathogens. In this study, we …

Antimicrobial peptides conjugated with fatty acids on the side chain of D-amino acid promises antimicrobial potency against multidrug-resistant bacteria

C Zhong, N Zhu, Y Zhu, T Liu, S Gou, J Xie… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
With the alarming burden of antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) seem to be
novel antimicrobial alternatives for infection treatment due to their rapid broad-spectrum …

Small molecular mimetics of antimicrobial peptides as a promising therapy to combat bacterial resistance

P Teng, H Shao, B Huang, J Xie, S Cui… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Clinically, antibiotics are widely used to treat infectious diseases; however, excessive drug
abuse and overuse exacerbate the prevalence of drug-resistant bacterial pathogens …

Therapeutic potential of foldamers: from chemical biology tools to drug candidates?

R Gopalakrishnan, AI Frolov, L Knerr… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, foldamers have progressively emerged as useful architectures to
mimic secondary structures of proteins. Peptidic foldamers, consisting of various amino acid …

Membrane‐active small molecules: designs inspired by antimicrobial peptides

C Ghosh, J Haldar - ChemMedChem, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases continue to be one of the major contributors to human morbidity. The
rapid rate at which pathogenic microorganisms have developed resistance against frontline …

Potentiation of antibiotics against Gram-negative bacteria by polymyxin B analogue SPR741 from unique perturbation of the outer membrane

S French, M Farha, MJ Ellis, Z Sameer… - ACS infectious …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Therapeutics targeting Gram-negative bacteria have the challenge of overcoming a
formidable outer membrane (OM) barrier. Here, we characterize the action of SPR741, a …