Lipopeptide Surfactants as Potential Antimicrobial Agents
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Peptides".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2024 | Viewed by 207
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic synthesis; surfactants; amino acids-based surfactants; antimicrobial activity; antibiofilm; molecular docking
Interests: antimicrobial activity; drug delivery; controlled release; pharmaceutical sciences; dentistry; polymer science
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and its impact on the treatment of infections is a serious threat to public health. AMR has a direct impact on human and animal health and exerts a heavy economic burden due to the high cost of treatments and the reduced level of productivity caused by sickness. Surfactants are molecules that exhibit antimicrobial activities by interacting with the biological membranes of microorganisms, which makes the antimicrobial properties of these molecules significant for many industrial sectors (biocontrol, pharmaceutical, phytosanitary, detergents, etc.). This Special Issue, entitled “Antimicrobial activity of Lipopeptide Surfactants as Potential Antimicrobial Agents”, will be devoted to the production and characterization of lipopeptide surfactants. Topics that will be addressed in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the characterization of new or old surfactant molecules with antimicrobial activity, the elucidation of the antimicrobial mode of action, and analysis of the molecular mechanism of either experimental or in silico methods.
Please refer to the introductions of Special Issues online: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/antibiotics/special_issues.
Dr. Zakaria Hafidi
Dr. Francisco Fabio Oliveira De Sousa
Guest Editors
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