Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), critical components of the innate immune system, are widely
distributed throughout the animal and plant kingdoms. They can protect against a broad …

Rapid rise of antimicrobial resistance against conventional antimicrobials, resurgence of
multidrug resistant microbes and the slowdown in the development of new classes of …

The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas
aeruginosa raises fears of untreatable infections and poses the greatest health threats …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a large class of innate immunity effectors with a
remarkable capacity to inactivate microorganisms. Their ability to kill bacteria by …

Background: The digestive hydrolysis of dietary proteins leads to the release of peptides in
the intestinal tract, where they may exert a variety of functions, but their characterization and …

Due to the increasing emergence of drug-resistant pathogenic microorganisms, there is a
world-wide quest to develop new-generation antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and highlight a few classes of traditional
antimicrobial peptides with a focus on structure-activity relationship studies. After first …

Resistance to antibiotics is one of the main current threats to human health and every year
multi-drug resistant bacteria are infecting millions of people worldwide, with many dying as a …

The increasing resistance of pathogens to antibiotics causes a huge clinical burden that
places great demands on academic researchers and the pharmaceutical industry for …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are constituents of the innate immune system in every kind of
living organism. They can act by disrupting the microbial membrane or without affecting …