Peptides with dual antimicrobial and anticancer activities

MR Felício, ON Silva, S Gonçalves, NC Santos… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, the number of people suffering from cancer and multi-resistant infections has
increased, such that both diseases are already seen as current and future major causes of …

Designing improved active peptides for therapeutic approaches against infectious diseases

B Gomes, MT Augusto, MR Felício, A Hollmann… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases are one of the main causes of human morbidity and mortality. In the last
few decades, pathogenic microorganisms' resistance to conventional drugs has been …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the bioactivity of anticancer peptides as deduced from machine learning

W Shoombuatong, N Schaduangrat… - EXCLI …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer imposes a global health burden as it represents one of the leading causes of
morbidity and mortality while also giving rise to significant economic burden owing to the …

[HTML][HTML] Design and characterization of novel antimicrobial peptides, R-BP100 and RW-BP100, with activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria

IM Torcato, YH Huang, HG Franquelim… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2013 - Elsevier
BP100 is a short cationic antimicrobial peptide with a mechanism of action dependent on
peptide–lipid interactions and microbial surface charge neutralization. Although active …

Antimicrobial peptides as potential therapeutics for breast cancer

S Aghamiri, F Zandsalimi, P Raee… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the most common and deadliest cancer in women worldwide. Although
notable advances have been achieved in the treatment of breast cancer, the overall survival …

How many antimicrobial peptide molecules kill a bacterium? The case of PMAP-23

D Roversi, V Luca, S Aureli, Y Park… - ACS chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) kill bacteria mainly through the perturbation of their
membranes and are promising compounds to fight drug resistance. Models of the …

Class IIa bacteriocins: diversity and new developments

Y Cui, C Zhang, Y Wang, J Shi, L Zhang, Z Ding… - International journal of …, 2012 - mdpi.com
Class IIa bacteriocins are heat-stable, unmodified peptides with a conserved amino acids
sequence YGNGV on their N-terminal domains, and have received much attention due to …

Predictive model of linear antimicrobial peptides active against gram-negative bacteria

B Vishnepolsky, A Gabrielian, A Rosenthal… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been identified as a potential new class of anti-
infectives for drug development. There are a lot of computational methods that try to predict …

Simple squaramide receptors for highly efficient anion binding in aqueous media and transmembrane transport

G Picci, M Kubicki, A Garau, V Lippolis… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A family of acyclic squaramide receptors (L1–L5) have been synthesised with the aim to
bind anions in a competitive solvent mixture and to evaluate how the presence of additional …

Enabling the discovery and virtual screening of potent and safe antimicrobial peptides. Simultaneous prediction of antibacterial activity and cytotoxicity

VV Kleandrova, JM Ruso… - ACS combinatorial …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) represent promising alternatives to fight against bacterial
pathogens. However, cellular toxicity remains one of the main concerns in the early …