Natural and Synthetic Antimicrobial Substances: Novel Advances and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 2668
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Interests: biochemistry; mass spectrometry; proteomic; nanoparticles; protein expression; live cell imaging; western blot analysis; protein purification; cloning; DNA extraction; bacterial cell culture; plasmid cloning
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Interests: biologia molecolare; sistemi riparo DNA; molecular microbiology; biomolecule; antimicrobial peptides
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of new drugs able to counteract pathogenic microbes is crucial in many fields of application due to the large increase in drug-resistant bacterial strains.
The growing problem of resistance to conventional antibiotics and the need for new antibiotics has stimulated interest in the development of new possible human therapy. Much interest has been directed towards natural molecules or antimicrobial peptides. In this respect, the study of their mechanisms of action and the identification of their protein targets could increase their specificity and power of action, leaving pathogens exposed to antibiotic treatments.
This Special Issue will be dedicated not only to the study on new antimicrobial compounds, natural or synthetic, but also to studies on already-existing compounds to identify specific protein targets and develop new molecules with improved antimicrobial profiles.
Dr. Angela Di Somma
Prof. Dr. Angela Duilio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial agents
- natural compounds
- antimicrobial peptides
- protein targets
- biochemistry approaches
- proteomic techniques
- pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria
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