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ReviewPharmaceutics2024

Antimicrobial Peptides: A Promising Solution to the Rising Threat of Antibiotic Resistance.

Tarequl Islam, Noshin Tabassum Tamanna, Md Shahjalal Sagor, Randa Mohammed Zaki, Muhammad Fazle Rabbee, Maximilian Lackner

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Tarequl IslamDepartment of Microbiology, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Sonapur, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-2172-7685
Noshin Tabassum TamannaDepartment of Pharmacy, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Sonapur, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.
Md Shahjalal SagorDepartment of Microbiology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0003-2228-4369
Randa Mohammed ZakiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 173, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6145-4837
Muhammad Fazle RabbeeDepartment of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2497-5219
Maximilian LacknerDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Hoechstaedtplatz 6, 1200 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-2673-7495

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The demand for developing novel antimicrobial drugs has increased due to the rapid appearance and global spread of antibiotic resistance. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) offer distinct advantages over traditional antibiotics, such as broad-range efficacy, a delayed evolution of resistance, and the capacity to enhance human immunity. AMPs are being developed as potential medicines, and current computational and experimental tools aim to facilitate their preclinical and clinical development. Structural and functional constraints as well as a more stringent regulatory framework have impeded clinical translation of AMPs as possible therapeutic agents. Although around four thousand AMPs have been identified so far, there are some limitations of using these AMPs in clinical trials due to their safety in the host and sometimes limitations in the biosynthesis or chemical synthesis of some AMPs. Overcoming these obstacles may help to open a new era of AMPs to combat superbugs without using synthetic antibiotics. This review describes the classification, mechanisms of action and immune modulation, advantages, difficulties, and opportunities of using AMPs against multidrug-resistant pathogens and highlights the need and priorities for creating targeted development strategies that take into account the most cutting-edge tools currently available. It also describes the barriers to using these AMPs in clinical trials.

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microorganismsmulti-drug resistancepeptide antibioticspeptide designtherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID39771521
PMCPMC11728462

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