The value of antimicrobial peptides in the age of resistance

M Magana, M Pushpanathan, AL Santos… - The lancet infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Accelerating growth and global expansion of antimicrobial resistance has deepened the
need for discovery of novel antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial peptides have clear …

Concepts of artificial intelligence for computer-assisted drug discovery

X Yang, Y Wang, R Byrne, G Schneider… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial intelligence (AI), and, in particular, deep learning as a subcategory of AI, provides
opportunities for the discovery and development of innovative drugs. Various machine …

Sprayable hydrogel dressing accelerates wound healing with combined reactive oxygen species-scavenging and antibacterial abilities

H Cheng, Z Shi, K Yue, X Huang, Y Xu, C Gao, Z Yao… - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Wound management poses a considerable economic burden on the global healthcare
system, considering the impacts of wound infection, delayed healing and scar formation. To …

Artificial intelligence and machine learning‐aided drug discovery in central nervous system diseases: State‐of‐the‐arts and future directions

S Vatansever, A Schlessinger, D Wacker… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurological disorders significantly outnumber diseases in other therapeutic areas.
However, developing drugs for central nervous system (CNS) disorders remains the most …

Bioactive synthetic polymers

K Jung, N Corrigan, EHH Wong, C Boyer - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic polymers are omnipresent in society as textiles and packaging materials, in
construction and medicine, among many other important applications. Alternatively, natural …

The immunology of host defence peptides: beyond antimicrobial activity

REW Hancock, EF Haney, EE Gill - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Host defence peptides (HDPs) are short, cationic amphipathic peptides with diverse
sequences that are produced by various cells and tissues in all complex life forms. HDPs …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Reassessing the host defense peptide landscape

EF Haney, SK Straus, REW Hancock - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Current research has demonstrated that small cationic amphipathic peptides have strong
potential not only as antimicrobials, but also as antibiofilm agents, immune modulators, and …

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 …

QSAR modeling: where have you been? Where are you going to?

A Cherkasov, EN Muratov, D Fourches… - Journal of medicinal …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Quantitative structure–activity relationship modeling is one of the major computational tools
employed in medicinal chemistry. However, throughout its entire history it has drawn both …