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 …

Applications of antimicrobial peptides from fish and perspectives for the future

V Rajanbabu, JY Chen - Peptides, 2011 - Elsevier
Fish are a major component of the aquatic fauna. Like other organisms, fish secrete different
kinds of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which are positively charged short amino-acid-chain …

Piscidin, fish antimicrobial peptide: structure, classification, properties, mechanism, gene regulation and therapeutical importance

SV Raju, P Sarkar, P Kumar, J Arockiaraj - International Journal of Peptide …, 2021 - Springer
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short molecules produced by almost all organisms. Fish
AMPs contain innate immune components as their primary immune molecules. The fish …

High-resolution structures and orientations of antimicrobial peptides piscidin 1 and piscidin 3 in fluid bilayers reveal tilting, kinking, and bilayer immersion

BS Perrin Jr, Y Tian, R Fu, CV Grant… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
While antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been widely investigated as potential
therapeutics, high-resolution structures obtained under biologically relevant conditions are …

Potent inhibitor design against H1N1 swine influenza: structure-based and molecular dynamics analysis for M2 inhibitors from traditional Chinese medicine database

CH Lin, TT Chang, MF Sun, HY Chen… - Journal of …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The rapid spread of influenza virus subtype H1N1 poses a great threat to million lives
worldwide. To search for new anti-influenza compounds, we performed molecular docking …

[HTML][HTML] Structural flexibility and the positive charges are the key factors in bacterial cell selectivity and membrane penetration of peptoid-substituted analog of Piscidin …

JK Kim, SA Lee, S Shin, JY Lee, KW Jeong… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2010 - Elsevier
Piscidin 1 (Pis-1) is a novel cytotoxic peptide with a cationic α-helical structure isolated from
the mast cells of hybrid striped bass. In our previous study, we showed that Pis-1 [PG] with a …

The structural stability of wild-type horse prion protein

J Zhang - Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Prion diseases (eg Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), variant CJD (vCJD),
Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) and Kuru in …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulations of histidine-containing cod antimicrobial peptide paralogs in self-assembled bilayers

MH Khatami, M Bromberek, I Saika-Voivod… - Biochimica Et Biophysica …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Gaduscidin-1 and-2 (GAD-1 and GAD-2) are antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that
contain several histidine residues and are thus expected to exhibit pH-dependent activity. In …

Studies on adaptability of binding residues flap region of TMC-114 resistance HIV-1 protease mutants

R Purohit, V Rajendran… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Drug resistant mutations have severely restricted the success of HIV therapy. These
mutations frequently involve the aspartic protease encoded by the virus. Knowledge of the …

Three-in-one agonists for PPAR-α, PPAR-γ, and PPAR-δ from traditional Chinese medicine

KC Chen, SS Chang, HJ Huang, TL Lin… - Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Nowadays, the occurrence of metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by obesity and
clinical disorders, has been increasing rapidly over the world. It induces several serious …