Antimicrobial Peptides - Discovery, Structure, Function, and Application
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Peptides".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 19926
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer-aided drug design; docking; molecular dynamics; cheminformatics; machine learning; therapeutic peptides; GPCR; ion channels
Interests: molecular and cellular microbiology; host-pathogen interactions; anti-infective drugs and alternative therapeutic strategies
Interests: bioinformatics; immunoinformatics; machine learning; drug discovery and development
Interests: computer-aided drug design; docking; molecular dynamics; membrane proteins; nuclear receptors; COVID-19 inhibitors; flaviviridae virus
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDR) has become a global health crisis, affecting our ability to treat infectious diseases and leading to increasing morbidity and mortality. New treatment options are therefore urgently needed to eradicate MDR bacteria. Among them, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are emerging as promising antibiotic agents due to their remarkable broad-spectrum antibacterial properties and lower probability of bacterial resistance development. To date, more than 3000 AMPs have been discovered from nature, and many more chemically modified synthetic peptides with improved biological activities have been developed. Nevertheless, the successful translational applications of AMPs are very limited. On the one hand, our incomplete understanding of how these peptides work hinders their development into therapeutics. On the other hand, the relatively high production costs, short half-life, low bioavailability, and potential toxic side effects of AMPs compared to conventional small molecule drugs make them less attractive to study through the established drug discovery pipeline. Addressing these challenges requires a deeper understanding of AMPs and innovative techniques to discover and design potent AMPs that are relevant to clinical applications.
In this Special Issue, we aim to collect and disseminate the latest experimental and computational works on the discovery and characterization of AMPs, in terms of their structures, functions and potential applications. Manuscripts from original research and review articles are invited. Submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed to ensure high quality of contributions in this issue.
Prof. Dr. Shirley W. I. Siu
Prof. Dr. François-Xavier Campbell-Valois
Prof. Dr. Watshara Shoombuatong
Dr. Siti Azma Jusoh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial peptides
- antibacterial peptides
- antibiotics
- bioinformatics
- host defense peptides
- multidrug-resistance bacteria
- peptide sequence
- peptide structure
- peptide design
- peptide drug discovery
- peptide therapeutics
- secretions
- toxins
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