It's not a bug, it's a feature: functional materials in insects

TBH Schroeder, J Houghtaling, BD Wilts… - Advanced …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a
taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives …

Nanopore‐Based, Rapid Characterization of Individual Amyloid Particles in Solution: Concepts, Challenges, and Prospects

J Houghtaling, J List, M Mayer - Small, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aggregates of misfolded proteins are associated with several devastating
neurodegenerative diseases. These so‐called amyloids are therefore explored as …

How do the properties of amphiphilic polymer membranes influence the functional insertion of peptide pores?

A Belluati, V Mikhalevich, S Yorulmaz Avsar… - …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Pore-forming peptides are of high biological relevance particularly as cytotoxic agents, but
their properties are also applicable for the permeabilization of lipid membranes for …

Characterisation of cell membrane interaction mechanisms of antimicrobial peptides by electrical bilayer recording

D Priyadarshini, J Ivica, F Separovic… - Biophysical …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Many antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are cationic host defence peptides (HDPs) that interact
with microbial membranes. This ability may lead to implementation of AMPs as therapeutics …

Effects of peptide charge, orientation, and concentration on melittin transmembrane pores

A Pino-Angeles, T Lazaridis - Biophysical Journal, 2018‏ - cell.com
Melittin is a short cationic peptide that exerts cytolytic effects on bacterial and eukaryotic
cells. Experiments suggest that in zwitterionic membranes, melittin forms transmembrane …

Tuning the diameter, stability, and membrane affinity of peptide pores by DNA-programmed self-assembly

A Fennouri, J List, J Ducrey, J Dupasquier, V Sukyte… - ACS …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Protein pores recently enabled a breakthrough in bioanalytics by making it possible to
sequence individual DNA and RNA strands during their translocation through the lumen of …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic Insight into the Early Stages of Toroidal Pore Formation by the Antimicrobial Peptide Smp24

M Bertelsen, MM Lacey, T Nichol, K Miller - Pharmaceutics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
The antimicrobial peptide Smp24, originally derived from the venom of Scorpio maurus
palmatus, is a promising candidate for further drug development. However, before doing so …

Conformations and dynamic transitions of a melittin derivative that forms macromolecule-sized pores in lipid bilayers

AE Pittman, BP Marsh, GM King - Langmuir, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Systematically evolved from the primary active component of bee venom, MelP5 is a
lipophilic peptide with important physical properties that differ from wild-type melittin …

Lipid-Centric Approaches in Combating Infectious Diseases: Antibacterials, Antifungals and Antivirals with Lipid-Associated Mechanisms of Action

OS Ostroumova, SS Efimova - Antibiotics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
One of the global challenges of the 21st century is the increase in mortality from infectious
diseases against the backdrop of the spread of antibiotic-resistant pathogenic …

Residue-specialized membrane poration kinetics of melittin and its variants: insight from mechanistic landscapes

ZX Deng, JL Li, B Yuan, K Yang - Communications in Theoretical …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Pore-forming peptides have promising potentials for biomedical uses due to their ability to
permeabilize cell membranes. However, to molecularly engineer them for practical …