Better understanding of the mechanisms of action, modification and synthesis of antimicrobial peptides is reigniting commercial development. Jeffrey L. Fox reports. Against a background of US federal ...

Researchers have identified a gut-lung axis driven by intestinal antimicrobial peptide expression and mediated by the intestinal microbiota that is linked to lung injury in newborns. These results ...

New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some peptides are more effective at doing that and also why some cells are more ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers developed a method to measure the maintenance or loss of antimicrobial peptide (AMP) activity for thousands of ...

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a diverse class of short, cationic molecules that form an integral part of the innate immune system. They not only act directly against invading pathogens through ...

In a review article published in the January 24 issue of the journal Nature, Michael Zasloff, MD, PhD, Georgetown University Medical Center’s Dean of Research and Translational Science, describes how ...

Every Thanksgiving, Americans eat about 45 million turkeys, but for some, the holiday feast ends in food poisoning.

With a rise in antibiotic resistance towards the existing range of antibiotics, there is a need to discover a new class of previously unknown antibiotic peptides. Previous methods of identifying new ...

Researchers have now developed a streamlined approach to developing artificial antimicrobial peptides. Their strategy, which relies on a computer algorithm that mimics the natural process of evolution ...

Novel antibiotics are urgently needed to combat multidrug-resistant pathogens. Venoms represent previously untapped sources of novel drugs. Here we repurposed mastoparan-L, the toxic active principle ...

The peptide snakin-2 (StSN2) has been isolated from potato (Solanum tuberosum cv Jaerla) tubers and found to be active (EC50 = 1-20 μM) against fungal and bacterial plant pathogens. It causes a rapid ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified previously unknown genetic mechanisms that promote antimicrobial resistance ...