[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptides for combating drug-resistant bacterial infections

J Xuan, W Feng, J Wang, R Wang, B Zhang, L Bo… - Drug Resistance …, 2023 - Elsevier
The problem of drug resistance due to long-term use of antibiotics has been a concern for
years. As this problem grows worse, infections caused by multiple bacteria are expanding …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): A promising class of antimicrobial compounds

M Erdem Büyükkiraz, Z Kesmen - Journal of applied …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are compounds, which have inhibitory activity against
microorganisms. In the last decades, AMPs have become powerful alternative agents that …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The antimicrobial peptides and their potential clinical applications

J Lei, L Sun, S Huang, C Zhu, P Li, J He… - American journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nowadays, the bacterial drug resistance leads to serious healthy problem worldwide due to
the long-term use and the abuse of traditional antibiotics result in drug resistance of bacteria …

Antimicrobial peptides–Advances in development of therapeutic applications

HX Luong, TT Thanh, TH Tran - Life sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The severe infection is becoming a significant health problem which threaten the lives of
patients and the safety and economy of society. In the way of finding new strategy …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptides: new hope in the war against multidrug resistance

J Mwangi, X Hao, R Lai, ZY Zhang - Zoological research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The discovery of antibiotics marked a golden age in the revolution of human medicine.
However, decades later, bacterial infections remain a global healthcare threat, and a return …

Antimicrobial peptides

AA Bahar, D Ren - Pharmaceuticals, 2013 - mdpi.com
The rapid increase in drug-resistant infections has presented a serious challenge to
antimicrobial therapies. The failure of the most potent antibiotics to kill “superbugs” …

Action of antimicrobial peptides against bacterial biofilms

M Yasir, MDP Willcox, D Dutta - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Microbes are known to colonize surfaces and form biofilms. These biofilms are communities
of microbes encased in a self-produced matrix that often contains polysaccharides, DNA and …

Designing antimicrobial peptides: form follows function

CD Fjell, JA Hiss, REW Hancock… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2012 - nature.com
Multidrug-resistant bacteria are a severe threat to public health. Conventional antibiotics are
becoming increasingly ineffective as a result of resistance, and it is imperative to find new …

Antimicrobial and antibiofilm peptides

A Di Somma, A Moretta, C Canè, A Cirillo, A Duilio - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The increasing onset of multidrug-resistant bacteria has propelled microbiology research
towards antimicrobial peptides as new possible antibiotics from natural sources …