Mechanistic Evaluation of Antimicrobial Lipid Interactions with Tethered Lipid Bilayers by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 There is extensive interest in developing real-time biosensing strategies to characterize the membrane-disruptive properties of antimicrobial lipids and surfactants.
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Synergistic Membrane Disruption of E. coli Tethered Lipid Bilayers by Antimicrobial Lipid Mixtures [PDF]
BiomimeticsBiomimetic lipid platforms provide versatile tools for mimicking various types of biological membranes and enable investigation of how industrially important amphiphiles (e.g., permeation enhancers and surfactants) interact with different membrane ...
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Unraveling How Antimicrobial Lipid Mixtures Disrupt Virus-Mimicking Lipid Vesicles: A QCM-D Study [PDF]
BiomimeticsSingle-chain lipid amphiphiles such as fatty acids and monoglycerides are promising antimicrobial alternatives to replace industrial surfactants for membrane-enveloped pathogen inhibition.
Suji Moon +3 more
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Development of a water-dispersible antimicrobial lipid mixture to inhibit African swine fever virus and other enveloped viruses [PDF]
Virus ResearchMedium-chain antimicrobial lipids are promising antiviral agents to inhibit membrane-enveloped viruses such as African swine fever virus (ASFV) and influenza A virus (IAV) in livestock applications.
Joshua A. Jackman +6 more
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Designing AI-generated antimicrobials for targeting bacterial microdomains [PDF]
Scientific ReportsBacterial membranes are essential for processes such as nutrient transport, signal transduction, and maintaining cellular integrity. Within these membranes, specialized microdomains like cardiolipin-rich domains, serve as key sites for protein ...
Mateusz Rzycki, Adam Gruda
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Lipid-Based Nanostructures for the Delivery of Natural Antimicrobials
Molecules, 2021 Encapsulation can be a suitable strategy to protect natural antimicrobial substances against some harsh conditions of processing and storage and to provide efficient formulations for antimicrobial delivery. Lipid-based nanostructures, including liposomes,
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Nanomaterials, 2021 Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health as current antibiotics are becoming useless against resistant infectious pathogens. Consequently, new antimicrobial strategies are urgently required.
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Lipid-based nanoparticles as novel drug delivery systems for antimicrobial agents [PDF]
The Iranian Journal of Veterinary Science and Technology, 2018 Despite the development of novel drugs and technologies in combating the infectious diseases, they remain as a global health challenge. The use of conventional antimicrobial drugs are always associated with problems such as antimicrobial resistance ...
Ali Rassouli, Alwan Al-Qushawi
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Innate Antimicrobial Defense of Skin and Oral Mucosa
Antibiotics, 2020 This special issue intends to review and update our understanding of the antimicrobial defense mechanisms of the skin and oral cavity. These two environments are quite different in terms of water, pH, and nutrient availability, but have some common ...
Philip W. Wertz, Sarah de Szalay
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Aggregate, 2023 Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are potentially powerful alternatives to conventional antibiotics in combating multidrug resistance, given their broad spectrum of activity.
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