[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptides: an update on classifications and databases

A Bin Hafeez, X Jiang, PJ Bergen, Y Zhu - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are distributed across all kingdoms of life and are an
indispensable component of host defenses. They consist of predominantly short cationic …

Small bioactive peptides for biomaterials design and therapeutics

IW Hamley - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review is aimed to provide a concise yet extensive survey of key short bioactive peptide
sequences for a range of applications ranging from biomaterials development to peptides …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptides

L Zhang, RL Gallo - Current biology, 2016 - cell.com
Antimicrobial peptides and proteins (AMPs) are a diverse class of naturally occurring
molecules that are produced as a first line of defense by all multicellular organisms. These …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): Ancient compounds that represent novel weapons in the fight against bacteria

JM Ageitos, A Sánchez-Pérez, P Calo-Mata… - Biochemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short peptidic molecules produced by most living
creatures. They help unicellular organisms to successfully compete for nutrients with other …

[HTML][HTML] Application of antimicrobial peptides of the innate immune system in combination with conventional antibiotics—a novel way to combat antibiotic resistance?

MS Zharkova, DS Orlov, OY Golubeva… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Rapidly growing resistance of pathogenic bacteria to conventional antibiotics leads to
inefficiency of traditional approaches of countering infections and determines the urgent …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotics in the clinical pipeline at the end of 2015

MS Butler, MAT Blaskovich, MA Cooper - The Journal of antibiotics, 2017 - nature.com
There is growing global recognition that the continued emergence of multidrug-resistant
bacteria poses a serious threat to human health. Action plans released by the World Health …

The vast structural diversity of antimicrobial peptides

J Koehbach, DJ Craik - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) occur in all kingdoms of life and are integral to host defense.
They have diverse structures and target a variety of organisms, both by nonspecific …

Antimicrobial peptides: key components of the innate immune system

M Pasupuleti, A Schmidtchen… - Critical reviews in …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Life-threatening infectious diseases are on their way to cause a worldwide crisis, as treating
them effectively is becoming increasingly difficult due to the emergence of antibiotic resistant …

[HTML][HTML] Cathelicidins: family of antimicrobial peptides. A review

EM Kościuczuk, P Lisowski, J Jarczak… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - Springer
Cathelicidins are small, cationic, antimicrobial peptides found in humans and other species,
including farm animals (cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, rabbits and in some …

[HTML][HTML] Review of current strategies for delivering Alzheimer's disease drugs across the blood-brain barrier

KH Wong, MK Riaz, Y Xie, X Zhang, Q Liu… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Effective therapy for Alzheimer's disease is a major challenge in the pharmaceutical
sciences. There are six FDA approved drugs (eg, donepezil, memantine) that show some …