Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are distributed across all kingdoms of life and are an
indispensable component of host defenses. They consist of predominantly short cationic …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising novel antibiotics since they have shown
antimicrobial activity against a wide range of bacterial species, including multiresistant …

Cationic antimicrobial peptides are a class of small, positively charged peptides known for
their broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity. These peptides have also been shown to …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are the natural antibiotics recognized for their broad-
spectrum resistance to bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites, and influencing the host …

Antimicrobial host defense peptides (HDPs) are a critical component of the innate immunity
with microbicidal, endotoxin-neutralizing, and immunostimulatory properties. HDPs kill …

Conventional analyses distinguish between antimicrobial peptides by differences in amino
acid sequence. Yet structural paradigms common to broader classes of these molecules …

Marine invertebrates lack an acquired, memory-type immunity based on T-lymphocyte
subsets and clonally derived immunoglobulins (72). This differs from the vertebrate immune …

Antimicrobial peptides are widely expressed in organisms and have been linked to innate
and acquired immunities in vertebrates. These compounds are constitutively expressed and …

Cationic host defence (antimicrobial) peptides are an important component of the innate
immune systems of a wide variety of plants, animals, and bacteria. Although most of these …

Human β-defensins form a group of cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides which have been
found in epithelial tissue and, more recently, in the male genital tract. They play a role in the …