Antimicrobial Peptides: Discovery, Design and Novel Therapeutic Strategies 2019

Dear Colleagues,

In the past several decades, antimicrobial peptides have emerged as valuable therapeutic agents with a wide range of applications. They have been isolated from natural sources or obtained using chemical methodologies. Synthetic antimicrobial peptides can be designed through the modification of natural sequences or by using de novo design strategies. The latter approach is usually based on the structural features of antimicrobial peptides described to be crucial for their mechanism of action. The efforts devoted to this research have resulted in peptides with interesting properties that have led to advances in fields with high social impact, namely agriculture, medicine, veterinary medicine, and the food industry.

The aim of this Special Issue is to gather original research articles focused on all aspects of antimicrobial peptide chemistry and biology: isolation and characterization, design of new analogues, synthetic methodologies, mechanistic studies, and biological applications. This Issue will contribute to update the knowledge of this research field, and will be of interest for scientists from several disciplines.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lidia Feliu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marta Planas
Guest Editors

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