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 …

Plant antimicrobial peptides: structures, functions, and applications

J Li, S Hu, W Jian, C Xie, X Yang - Botanical Studies, 2021 - Springer
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a class of short, usually positively charged polypeptides
that exist in humans, animals, and plants. Considering the increasing number of drug …

Antimicrobial peptides: diversity, mechanism of action and strategies to improve the activity and biocompatibility in vivo

P Kumar, JN Kizhakkedathu, SK Straus - Biomolecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance is projected as one of the greatest threats to human health in the future
and hence alternatives are being explored to combat resistance. Antimicrobial peptides …

Cystic fibrosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa: the host-microbe interface

S Malhotra, D Hayes Jr, DJ Wozniak - Clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
In human pathophysiology, the clash between microbial infection and host immunity
contributes to multiple diseases. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a classical example of this …

Antimicrobial peptides and proteins: From nature's reservoir to the laboratory and beyond

T Sarkar, M Chetia, S Chatterjee - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rapid rise of antimicrobial resistance against conventional antimicrobials, resurgence of
multidrug resistant microbes and the slowdown in the development of new classes of …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptides: new hope in the war against multidrug resistance

J Mwangi, X Hao, R Lai, ZY Zhang - Zoological research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The discovery of antibiotics marked a golden age in the revolution of human medicine.
However, decades later, bacterial infections remain a global healthcare threat, and a return …

Antiviral peptides as promising therapeutic drugs

LCP Vilas Boas, ML Campos, RLA Berlanda… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
While scientific advances have led to large-scale production and widespread distribution of
vaccines and antiviral drugs, viruses still remain a major cause of human diseases today …

Antimicrobial peptides: challenging journey to the pharmaceutical, biomedical, and cosmeceutical use

A Mazurkiewicz-Pisarek, J Baran, T Ciach - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), or host defence peptides, are short proteins in various life
forms. Here we discuss AMPs, which may become a promising substitute or adjuvant in …

Antimicrobial peptides: A potent alternative to antibiotics

M Rima, M Rima, Z Fajloun, JM Sabatier, B Bechinger… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial peptides constitute one of the most promising alternatives to antibiotics since
they could be used to treat bacterial infections, especially those caused by multidrug …

A review on antimicrobial peptides databases and the computational tools

S Ramazi, N Mohammadi, A Allahverdi, E Khalili… - Database, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) have been considered as potential alternatives for
infection therapeutics since antibiotic resistance has been raised as a global problem. The …