Production of peptides with various effects from proteins of different sources continues to
receive academic attention. Researchers of different disciplines are putting increasing efforts …

Frog skin constitutes a rich source of peptides with a wide range of biological properties.
These include host-defense peptides with cytotoxic activities against bacteria, fungi …

Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen widely
attached to the surface of medical instruments, making it one of the most common pathogens …

Helices are one of the most common secondary structures found in peptides and proteins.
The wheel and net projections have been proposed to represent in two dimensions the …

More than a thousand antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been reported in the last decades
arising from the skin secretion of amphibian species. Generally, each frog species can …

Background With the increasing rate of antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter, the World
Health Organization introduced the carbapenem-resistant isolates in the priority pathogens …

Skin secretions from frogs belonging to the genera Xenopus, Silurana, Hymenochirus, and
Pseudhymenochirus in the family Pipidae are a rich source of host-defense peptides with …

The rise in antibiotic-resistant strains of clinically important pathogens is a major threat to
global health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized the urgent need to …

Simple Summary The incidence and developing status of multidrug-resistant bacteria and
fungi, as well as their related mortality, is reviewed by a systematic published literature …

Introduction: The emergence of multidrug-resistant microorganisms has necessitated a
search for new antimicrobial agents. Skin secretions of many frog species contain peptides …