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 …

Strategies employed in the design of antimicrobial peptides with enhanced proteolytic stability

Z Lai, X Yuan, H Chen, Y Zhu, N Dong, A Shan - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the alarming develo** rate of multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens, the
development and modification of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are unprecedentedly active …

Emerging diversity in lipid–protein interactions

V Corradi, BI Sejdiu, H Mesa-Galloso… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Membrane lipids interact with proteins in a variety of ways, ranging from providing a stable
membrane environment for proteins to being embedded in to detailed roles in complicated …

Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature

PG Arnison, MJ Bibb, G Bierbaum, AA Bowers… - Natural product …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1988 to 2012 This review presents recommended nomenclature for the
biosynthesis of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) …

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 …

Rethinking amide bond synthesis

VR Pattabiraman, JW Bode - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
One of the most important reactions in organic chemistry—amide bond formation—is often
overlooked as a contemporary challenge because of the widespread occurrence of amides …

Follow the leader: the use of leader peptides to guide natural product biosynthesis

TJ Oman, WA Van Der Donk - Nature chemical biology, 2010 - nature.com
The avalanche of genomic information in the past decade has revealed that natural product
biosynthesis using the ribosomal machinery is much more widespread than originally …