Antimicrobial Peptides: Expanded Activity Spectrum and Applications
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2016) | Viewed by 82011
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Interests: host defense antimicrobial peptides; structural bioinformatics; biomolecular NMR
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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 ([email protected]) if you would like to make a contribution.
- Expanding the horizon of antimicrobial peptides
- Antibacterial peptides: targeting gram-positive bacteria
- Antimicrobial peptides against gram-negative bacteria
- Anti-biofilm peptides
- Antiviral antimicrobial peptides
- Antifungal peptides
- Antiparasitic and antimalarial peptides
- Anticancer peptides
- Insecticidal peptides
- Spermicidal peptides
- Chemotactic antimicrobial peptides in immune modulation
- AMPs in wound healing
- Antimicrobial peptides with antioxidant activity
- Protease inhibitors
- Cell-penetrating peptides
- Surface immobilization of AMPs
- Synergy between AMPs
- Synergistic effects of AMPs and traditional antibiotics
- LPS-neutralizing peptides
Dr. Guangshun Wang
Guest Editor
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