Peptide Antimicrobial Agents
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2021) | Viewed by 25695
Special Issue Editors
Interests: protein and peptide synthesis; protein bioconjugation; bioactive peptides; bioorganic chemistry; synthesis of multiple disulfide containing polypeptides; posttranslationally modified peptides; ion channel blockers
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Interests: antimicrobial peptides; antifungal proteins; structure-activity relationships of antifungal proteins; peptide and protein synthesis; native chemical ligation; selective formation of disulfide bridges
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Dear Colleagues,
Antibiotic resistance—when germs (bacteria and fungi) develop the ability to defeat the antibiotics designed to kill them—is one of the greatest global health challenges of modern time. Currently, at least 700,000 people die each year due to drug-resistant diseases, including 230,000 people who die from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. More and more common diseases, including respiratory tract infections, sexually transmitted infections and urinary tract infections, are untreatable. The ever-increasing episodes of antibiotic resistance in bacteria and other microorganisms pose a serious threat to human health. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are ribosomally synthesized natural antibiotics produced by nearly all organisms, from bacteria to plants and animals. AMPs are the first line of innate defense present in most living organisms, from bacteria to humans, against invading pathogens. Certain AMPs show an exceptionally broad spectrum of activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria and fungi as well as viruses and parasites. Therefore, AMPs or their derivatives may represent potentially new classes of antimicrobial drugs. In this context, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have emerged as promising alternatives owing to their unique structural and functional characteristics. They have various modes of action; this diversity in the activity of the AMPs lead to the very-slow or negligible development of resistance against them in contrast to conventional antibiotics, which generally have a fixed intracellular target. This has led to significant advances in the area of AMP research in the last few decades for potential drugs of the future.
Prof. Dr. Gábor Tóth
Dr. Györgyi Váradi
Guest Editors
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