Antimicrobial peptides
Targeted antimicrobial peptides.
... targeted antimicrobial peptides has also been investigated through the conjugation of a classical antibiotic to a host defense peptide sequence, to increase its selectivity and activity against bacteria ...
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Human antimicrobial peptides in ocular surface defense
... Antimicrobial peptides expression by ocular surface cells in response to 1903. Acanthamoeba castellanii: an in vitro study[r] ...
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Métodos para la selección de características y clasificación de péptidos antimicrobianosFeature selection methods and classi?cation of antimicrobial peptides
... Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a promising alternative for combating pathogen that are resistant to antibiotics, because their multiple action mechanisms against microbe such as, bacteria, fungi, and ...
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Genomic Signatures of Experimental Adaptation to Antimicrobial Peptides in Staphylococcus aureus
... against antimicrobial peptides has long been considered unlikely due to their mechanism of action, yet experimental selection with antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) results in rapid evolution of ...
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Análisis de transcriptomas para el descubrimiento de péptidos antimicrobianosAnalysis of transcriptomes for antimicrobial peptides discovery
... of antimicrobial peptides ( AMP, A nti M icrobial P eptides ) is one of these approaches, motivated mainly by the frequent use of these molecules to fight different microorganisms and because they present a ...
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Reactive Oxygen Species, Apoptosis, Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Inflammatory Diseases
... all antimicrobial peptides are capable of killing cancer cells, AMPs with anticancer activity can be classified into two general categories namely: AMPs which are extremely effective against cancer cells ...
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Mechanisms and consequences of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial peptides
... its antimicrobial activity might be exerted in the cytoplasm ( Chileveru et ...buforin antimicrobial peptides were also shown to exert their bacterioci- dal activity on ...
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Cell-penetrating antimicrobial peptides - prospectives for targeting intracellular infections
... Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are short, often cationic peptides capable of internalizing into eukaryotic cells without damaging the plasma membrane at effective internalization concentrations, and ...
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Natural antimicrobial peptides
... alpha-helical antimicrobial peptides: rational use of minimal amino acid ...on antimicrobial peptides aurein ...the antimicrobial peptides, magain- in-2 and ...
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Antimicrobial peptides as new potential antibiotics
... the antimicrobial characteristics of AMPs and imidazolium-salts led to a highly increased antimicrobial activity, especially against hard to medicate multi-drug resistant strains like MRSA and ...strong ...
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Adaptation of the level of lipid chain order and elastic properties of bacterial membranes as a mechanism for inducing resistance to amphiphilic antimicrobial peptides
... neighboring peptides, producing an aqueous pore ...helical peptides (which represent the staves) ...model, peptides always interact with the polar headgroups of lipids, even after insertion ...the ...
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Mutants of Ralstonia (Pseudomonas) solanacearum sensitive to antimicrobial peptides are altered in their lipopolysaccharide structure and are avirulent in tobacco
... Results from the plant inoculation experiments were consis- tent with the proposed defense role of these plant antimicro- bial peptides, as the severity of symptoms produced was cor- rel[r] ...
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Amphibian antimicrobial peptides and Protozoa: Lessons from parasites
... membrane-bound peptides by ATR-FTIR shows H4 to be slightly more α-helical than H2, regardless of membrane composition, while in an NMR study the differences between the two epimers are con fined to the first four ...
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Lipid topography and lytic peptides: A lipocentric model for pore-forming antimicrobial peptides.
... lytic peptides Page 157 Increasing the headgroup area parameter of DOPE in the packing parameter calculation by the minimal area of the F side chain gives a packing parameter of ...
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Antimicrobial Resistance
... of antimicrobial peptides, a naturally occurring compound found in all classes of life, could be employed to fight bacteria that are resistant to ...
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Antifungal peptides in marine invertebrates
... “antimicrobial peptides (AMPs)” that are ribosomally synthesized from proteinogenic amino ...nonribosomal peptides consisting of unusual amino acids that exhibit potent cytotoxic and antifungal ...
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DAMPD: a manually curated antimicrobial peptide database
... for antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) is rising because of the increased occurrence of pathogens that are tolerant or resistant to conven- tional ...Dragon Antimicrobial Peptide Database (DAMPD, ...
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Antimicrobial peptide capsids of de novo design
... bespoke antimicrobial capsids that can be assembled from relatively short amino-acid ...of antimicrobial peptides reported in the literature 5 , 6 , each of these may be used to construct a ...
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Backbone N-modified peptides: beyond N-methylation
... The ease of peptoid synthesis and their potential for a large chemical diversity makes peptoids ideal candidates for the combinatorial discovery of novel peptidomimetic drug candidates. Early on, the synthesis of ...
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Serotypes and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae
... Carriage of antibiotic-resis- tant pneumocci among Asian children : a multi- national surveillance by the Asian network for surveillance of resistant pathogens(ANSORP)..[r] ...
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