The multifaceted nature of antimicrobial peptides: Current synthetic chemistry approaches and future directions

BH Gan, J Gaynord, SM Rowe, T Deingruber… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacterial infections caused by 'superbugs' are increasing globally, and conventional
antibiotics are becoming less effective against these bacteria, such that we risk entering a …

Inhibition of lipopolysaccharide-and lipoprotein-induced inflammation by antitoxin peptide Pep19-2.5

L Heinbockel, G Weindl, G Martinez-de-Tejada… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The most potent cell wall-derived inflammatory toxins (“pathogenicity factors”) of Gram-
negative and-positive bacteria are lipopolysaccharides (LPS)(endotoxins) and lipoproteins …

[HTML][HTML] Peptides with dual mode of action: Killing bacteria and preventing endotoxin-induced sepsis

K Brandenburg, L Heinbockel, W Correa… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2016 - Elsevier
Bacterial infections, with the most severe form being sepsis, can often not be treated
adequately leading to high morbidity and lethality of infected patients in critical care units. In …

Innate Immune Responses of Galleria mellonella to Mycobacterium bovis BCG Challenge Identified Using Proteomic and Molecular Approaches

M Asai, G Sheehan, Y Li, BD Robertson… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The larvae of the insect Galleria mellonella, have recently been established as a non-
mammalian infection model for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). To gain …

Biophysical approaches for exploring lipopeptide-lipid interactions

S Munusamy, R Conde, B Bertrand, C Munoz-Garay - Biochimie, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, lipopeptides (LPs) have attracted a lot of attention in the pharmaceutical
industry due to their broad-spectrum of antimicrobial activity against a variety of pathogens …

Studies on the interactions of neutral Galleria mellonella cecropin D with living bacterial cells

A Zdybicka-Barabas, S Stączek… - Amino Acids, 2019 - Springer
Cecropins constitute an important family of insect antimicrobial peptides involved in humoral
innate immune response. In comparison with the highly basic cecropins A and B, cecropins …

A study of the interaction of a new benzimidazole schiff base with synthetic and simulated membrane models of bacterial and mammalian membranes

A Aragón-Muriel, Y Liscano, D Morales-Morales… - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biological membranes are complex dynamic systems composed of a great variety of
carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, which together play a pivotal role in the protection of …

Structure–Activity Relationships of Low Molecular Weight Alginate Oligosaccharide Therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

MF Pritchard, LC Powell, JYM Adams, G Menzies… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Low molecular weight alginate oligosaccharides have been shown to exhibit anti-microbial
activity against a range of multi-drug resistant bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

The increase in positively charged residues in cecropin D-like Galleria mellonella favors its interaction with membrane models that imitate bacterial membranes

J Oñate-Garzón, A Ausili, M Manrique-Moreno… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
A comparative study of three synthetic peptides, namely neutral Cecropin D-like G.
mellonella (WT) and two cationic peptides derived from its sequence, ΔM1 (+ 5) and ΔM2 (+ …

Studies on the interaction of alyteserin 1c peptide and its cationic analogue with model membranes imitating mammalian and bacterial membranes

A Aragón-Muriel, A Ausili, K Sánchez, OE Rojas A… - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are effector molecules of the innate immune system and have
been isolated from multiple organisms. Their antimicrobial properties are due to the fact that …