Membrane active antimicrobial peptides: translating mechanistic insights to design

J Li, JJ Koh, S Liu, R Lakshminarayanan… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising next generation antibiotics that hold great
potential for combating bacterial resistance. AMPs can be both bacteriostatic and …

Antimicrobial peptides derived from insects offer a novel therapeutic option to combat biofilm: A review

A Sahoo, SS Swain, A Behera, G Sahoo… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biofilms form a complex layer with defined structures, that attach on biotic or abiotic surfaces,
are tough to eradicate and tend to cause some resistance against most antibiotics. Several …

dbAMP 2.0: updated resource for antimicrobial peptides with an enhanced scanning method for genomic and proteomic data

JH Jhong, L Yao, Y Pang, Z Li, CR Chung… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The last 18 months, or more, have seen a profound shift in our global experience, with many
of us navigating a once-in-100-year pandemic. To date, COVID-19 remains a life …

Antimicrobial peptides and copper (II) ions: Novel therapeutic opportunities

J Portelinha, SS Duay, SI Yu, K Heilemann… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The emergence of new pathogens and multidrug resistant bacteria is an important public
health issue that requires the development of novel classes of antibiotics. Antimicrobial …

[HTML][HTML] Insect proteins as a potential source of antimicrobial peptides in livestock production. A review

A Jozefiak, RM Engberg - Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences, 2017 - jafs.com.pl
Together with the extraction of first insect antimicrobial protein (AMP) from the pupae of the
giant silk moths Hyalophora cecropia the antibacterial activity of insects was observed for …

Collection of antimicrobial peptides database and its derivatives: Applications and beyond

FH Waghu, S Idicula‐Thomas - Protein Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Collection of antimicrobial peptides (CAMP), CAMPSign, and ClassAMP are open‐access
resources that have been developed to enhance research on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) …

The genomic and functional landscapes of developmental plasticity in the American cockroach

S Li, S Zhu, Q Jia, D Yuan, C Ren, K Li, S Liu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Many cockroach species have adapted to urban environments, and some have been
serious pests of public health in the tropics and subtropics. Here, we present the 3.38-Gb …

Antimicrobial peptides as anti-infective agents in pre-post-antibiotic era?

T Rončević, J Puizina, A Tossi - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
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 …

dbAMP: an integrated resource for exploring antimicrobial peptides with functional activities and physicochemical properties on transcriptome and proteome data

JH Jhong, YH Chi, WC Li, TH Lin… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), naturally encoded from genes and generally contained 10–
100 amino acids, are crucial components of the innate immune system and can protect the …

Bacteria associated with cockroaches: health risk or biotechnological opportunity?

J Guzman, A Vilcinskas - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2020 - Springer
Cockroaches have existed for 300 million years and more than 4600 extant species have
been described. Throughout their evolution, cockroaches have been associated with …