Effect of Fatty Acid Chain Modification on the Self-Assembly Behavior and Antimicrobial Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides [PDF]
AntibioticsBackground: The overuse of traditional antimicrobial agents has accelerated the global spread of drug-resistant bacteria, posing a severe threat to global public health.
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Bacterial lipopeptides from Bacillus: natural biostructuring agents for improving texture and stability in tomato-based functional foods [PDF]
Frontiers in NutritionIntroductionRecent advances in functional food formulation have highlighted bacterial lipopeptides as natural biomolecules capable of replacing synthetic additives while enhancing the physicochemical properties of food systems.
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Lipopeptides modulate lipid metabolism and immune performance in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) across dietary lipid levels [PDF]
Animal NutritionLipopeptides are versatile surface-active natural products that act as emulsifiers, enhance lipid utilization, and exhibit broad-spectrum antimicrobial properties.
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Soluble bacterial lipopeptides suppress gasdermin D-associated IL-33 release in keratinocytes and atopic dermatitis in mice [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe rising prevalence of allergic diseases over the last century has been linked to smaller families and the shift of populations from countryside to cities, leading to reduced exposure to environmental bacteria.
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Antimicrobial electrospun fiber mat from gelatin and crude extract of lipopeptides [PDF]
Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2020 Lipopeptides from Bacillus subtilis represent a class of biosurfactants with increasing therapeutic and biotechnological interests. In this study, we added crude extract of lipopeptides into a gelatin solution to examine the effect of these crude ...
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Pseudomonas spp. colonize diverse aquatic and terrestrial habitats and produce a wide variety of secondary metabolites, including lipopeptides. However, previous studies have often examined a limited number of lipopeptide-producing strains. In this study,
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Accession numbers for whole-genome sequence of Brevibacillus sp. strain GI9 and SKDU10 are CAGD01000001 to CAGD01000061 and LSSO00000000, respectively. Members of the genus Brevibacillus have been demonstrated to produce a variety of bioactive compounds ...
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TLR2-dependent induction of IL-10 and Foxp3+ CD25+ CD4+ regulatory T cells prevents effective anti-tumor immunity induced by Pam2 lipopeptides in vivo. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 16 S-[2,3-bis(palmitoyl)propyl]cysteine (Pam2) lipopeptides act as toll-like receptor (TLR)2/6 ligands and activate natural killer (NK) cells and dendritic cells (DCs) to produce inflammatory cytokines and cytotoxic NK activity in vitro. However, in this
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Pseudomonas lipopeptide: An excellent biomedical agent
MedComm – Biomaterials and Applications, 2023 Lipopeptides are surface active molecules with hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions and are kenned to be engendered by different species of Bacillus and Pseudomonas.
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Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021 Ligand-targeted microbubbles are focusing interest for molecular imaging and delivery of chemotherapeutics. Lipid–peptide conjugates (lipopeptides) that feature alternating serine–glycine (SG)n segments rather than classical poly(oxyethylene) linkers ...
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