Antimicrobial Peptides and Immunology, 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our previous Special Issue "Antimicrobial Peptides and Immunology". Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have improved our capacity to generate novel treatments against infectious disease of variable pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites because of their ability to disrupt their membranes or capsid and kill them directly. In addition, they do not generate resistance and are critical factors in innate immune response since they are key players in the regulation of several immune responses, including the specific response. Thus, antimicrobial peptides are promising candidates as potential therapeutic molecules, although their molecular mechanisms of action are not completely understood today. This issue invites studies identifying novel and known AMPs in the animal kingdom and in human beings; characterizing their immunomodulatory potential and mechanisms at the cellular and molecular level, as well as their antimicrobial role against dangerous pathogens for different hosts; and exploring AMPs’ biological use in clinical therapies in human health. The outcome of the studies collected here will represent a further step in our comprehension of the innate immune system of multiple organisms and the identification of novel treatments for infective diseases with a focus on AMPs.
This Special Issue is supervised by Dr. Elena Chaves-Pozo and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member Dr. Basudeb Mondal (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Georgia Institute of Technology).
Dr. Elena Chaves-Pozo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial peptides
- immune regulation
- macrophages
- mast cells
- granulocytes
- neutrophiles
- chemiotaxis
- G-protein couple membrane receptors
- inmunoadjuvants
- T cell proliferation
- cytokine regulation
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