ReviewFrontiers in chemistry2021
The Potential of Modified and Multimeric Antimicrobial Peptide Materials as Superbug Killers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Rational Design of Antimicrobial Peptides Based on Bacterial Type‑I Toxins AapA1, IbsC, and Fst1.ACS omega · 2025Article
- The Functional Mechanism and Structure-Activity Relationship of Antibacterial Peptides.Current topics in medicinal chemistry · 2025Review
- An Overview of the Recent Advances in Antimicrobial Resistance.Microorganisms · 2024Review
- Anti-Biofilm and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of the Truncated Analogs of the Scorpion Venom-Derived Peptide IsCT againstAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A Comprehensive Review of Recent Research into the Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides on Biofilms-January 2020 to September 2023.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Antimicrobial Peptide-Poly(ethylene glycol) Conjugates: Connecting Molecular Architecture, Solution Properties, and Functional Performance.ACS polymers Au · 2024Article
- The bactericidal and antibiofilm effects of a lysine-substituted hybrid peptide, CM-10K14K, on biofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Antimicrobial resistance expansion in pathogens: a review of current mitigation strategies and advances towards innovative therapy.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2023Review
- Design methods for antimicrobial peptides with improved performance.Zoological research · 2023Review
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- Lung SPLUNC1 Peptide Derivatives in the Lipid Membrane Headgroup Kill Gram-Negative Planktonic and Biofilm Bacteria.Biomacromolecules · 2023Article
- The Mechanism of Action of SAAP-148 Antimicrobial Peptide as Studied with NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulations.Pharmaceutics · 2023Article
- Important Roles and Potential Uses of Natural and Synthetic Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) in Oral Diseases: Cavity, Periodontal Disease, and Thrush.Journal of functional biomaterials · 2022Review
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are found in nearly all living organisms, show broad spectrum antibacterial activity, and can modulate the immune system. Furthermore, they have a very low level of resistance induction in bacteria, which makes them an ideal target for drug development and for targeting multi-drug resistant bacteria 'Superbugs'. Despite this promise, AMP therapeutic use is hampered as typically they are toxic to mammalian cells, less active under physiological conditions and are susceptible to proteolytic degradation. Research has focused on addressing these limitations by modifying natural AMP sequences by including e.g., d-amino acids and N-terminal and amino acid side chain modifications to alter structure, hydrophobicity, amphipathicity, and charge of the AMP to improve antimicrobial activity and specificity and at the same time reduce mammalian cell toxicity. Recently, multimerisation (dimers, oligomer conjugates, dendrimers, polymers and self-assembly) of natural and modified AMPs has further been used to address these limitations and has created compounds that have improved activity and biocompatibility compared to their linear counterparts. This review investigates how modifying and multimerising AMPs impacts their activity against bacteria in planktonic and biofilm states of growth.
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