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Membrane targeting cationic antimicrobial peptides
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2019Many short cationic peptides are amphiphilic and are often termed antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as they can kill various microorganisms. These AMPs have largely been discovered from nature, but over the past two decades many biomimetic and de novo designed AMPs have been reported, offering a huge variety of attractive properties for further ...
Jian Lu, Xuzhi Hu, Haoning Gong
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Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides for Tuberculosis: A Mini-Review
Current Protein and Peptide Science, 2019Cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) can be considered as new potential therapeutic agents for Tuberculosis treatment with a specific amino acid sequence. New studies can be developed in the future to improve the pharmacological properties of CAMPs and also understand possible resistance mechanisms.
Sara Silva, Nuno Vale
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The role of cationic antimicrobial peptides in innate host defences
Trends in Microbiology, 2000Cationic antimicrobial peptides are found in all living species. A single animal can contain >24 different antimicrobial peptides, which fall into four structural classes. These peptides are produced in large quantities at sites of infection and/or inflammation and can have broad-spectrum antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antiprotozoan and ...
Robert D Hancock, Gill Diamond
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Cationic antimicrobial peptides: towards clinical applications
Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs, 2000Cationic antimicrobial peptides are important components of the innate immune defences of all species of life. Variants of these natural molecules have a broad range of antibiotic, antifungal, antiviral and anti-endotoxic activity. Two of these cationic peptides have shown signs of efficacy in early clinical trials of oral mucositis and the ...
Robert D Hancock
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Bacterial resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides
Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 2012Naturally occurring cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) have been considered as promising candidates to treat infections caused by pathogenic bacteria to animals and humans. This assumption is based on their mechanism of action, which is mainly performed through electrostatic membrane interactions.
José Luis, Anaya-López +2 more
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Cationic host defense (antimicrobial) peptides
Current Opinion in Immunology, 2006Members of the cationic host defense (antimicrobial) peptide family are widely distributed in nature, existing in organisms from insects to plants to mammals and non-mammalian vertebrates. Although many demonstrate direct antimicrobial activity against bacteria, fungi, eukaryotic parasites and/or viruses, it has been established that cationic peptides ...
Kelly L, Brown, Robert E W, Hancock
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Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides in Penaeid Shrimp
Marine Biotechnology, 2010Penaeid shrimp aquaculture has been consistently affected worldwide by devastating diseases that cause a severe loss in production. To fight a variety of harmful microbes in the surrounding environment, particularly at high densities (of which intensive farming represents an extreme example), shrimps have evolved and use a diverse array of ...
Anchalee, Tassanakajon +3 more
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The Pharmacology of Radiolabeled Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2008Cationic antimicrobial peptides are good candidates for new diagnostics and antimicrobial agents. They can rapidly kill a broad range of microbes and have additional activities that have impact on the quality and effectiveness of innate responses and inflammation.
Carlo P J M, Brouwer +2 more
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A Review of Antimicrobial Peptides: Defensins and Related Cationic Peptides
Veterinary Clinical Pathology, 1995Cationic antimicrobial peptides are present throughout the plant and animal kingdoms and bear striking structural and functional similarities across species lines. They provide primitive, nonspecific means of combating a variety of bacteria, fungi, enveloped viruses, and protozoa.
Ellen W., Evans, Barry G., Harmon
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Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides
BioDrugs, 2003Many different types of organisms use antimicrobial peptides, typically 20-40 amino acids in length, for defence against infection. Most are capable of rapidly killing a wide range of microbial cells. They have been classified according to their active structures into six extensive groups.
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