Tailored Peptide Modifications for Advanced Infection Control Strategies
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 7544
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial peptides; infectious diseases; vaccines; anticancer; drug resistance
Interests: yeast-based vaccine; virus like particles; yeast-based screening; industrial application of yeast; recombinant proteins
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
While the world is already struggling with the rapid emergence of drug resistance and the scarcity of efficient antibiotics, the outbreak of new infectious agents such as SARS-CoV-2 increases the urgency of discovering new antimicrobial agents or strategies to fight against them. Tailored peptides including antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), peptide antibiotics, synthetic peptides, and peptide-based vaccines are recognized as potential alternatives to fight against drug resistance and new infections. Additionally, the synergistic action of AMPs with conventional antibiotics and their application as subunit vaccines or adjuvants is another approach to combat infections, as well as the further evolution of drug resistance.
In this Special Issue, authors are invited to submit original research, review articles, short communications, case series, and opinion papers related to, but not limited to, the following specific areas or research:
- Characterization and designing of novel AMPs, peptide antibiotics, synthetic peptides, and peptide-based vaccines or therapies.
- Strategies for the development of peptide-based therapies against infectious diseases.
- Peptide-based immunotherapies to combat cancer.
- Applications and strategies to use peptide-based therapies against autoimmune disease.
- Peptide-based therapies against fungal infections and antifungal drug resistance.
- Protein engineering strategies to design efficient peptide-based therapies.
- Synergistic action or combination treatment strategies of peptides with conventional antibiotics or other drugs to improve efficacy.
- New delivery strategies for peptides and peptide-based therapies to overcome drug resistance.
- Peptide-based therapies and immunotherapies in clinical trials and therapeutics.
Dr. Piyush Baindara
Dr. Ravinder Kumar
Dr. Santi Mandal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- peptide-based vaccines
- drug resistance
- protein engineering
- infectious diseases
- antibacterial
- antifungal
- antiviral
- immunotherapies
- therapeutics
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