Antimicrobial Peptides: Expanded Activity Spectrum and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Continued work on antimicrobial peptides, or innate immune peptides, has expanded their activity/function spectrum and opens new potential applications. Such activities are regularly annotated in the Antimicrobial Peptide Database (http://aps.unmc.edu/AP). To achieve a more comprehensive understanding of these activities, the journal Pharmaceuticals now invites valuable contributions that report original observations, or review these peptide activities. Select topics are listed below and you are welcome to generate a unique topic. This collection of manuscripts will be published as a Special Issue in the journal first and hopefully as an eBook later on. Investigators in the Antimicrobial Peptides AMP field or other related fields are encouraged to participate in this special event. Please email Dr. Guangshun Wang (gwang@unmc.edu) if you would like to make a contribution.

1. Expanding the horizon of antimicrobial peptides
2. Antibacterial peptides: targeting gram-positive bacteria
3. Antimicrobial peptides against gram-negative bacteria
4. Anti-biofilm peptides
5. Antiviral antimicrobial peptides
6. Antifungal peptides
7. Antiparasitic and antimalarial peptides
8. Anticancer peptides
9. Insecticidal peptides
10. Spermicidal peptides
11. Chemotactic antimicrobial peptides in immune modulation
12. AMPs in wound healing
13. Antimicrobial peptides with antioxidant activity
14. Protease inhibitors
15. Cell-penetrating peptides
16. Surface immobilization of AMPs
17. Synergy between AMPs
18. Synergistic effects of AMPs and traditional antibiotics
19. LPS-neutralizing peptides

Dr. Guangshun Wang
Guest Editor

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