New Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 3034
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial agents; antimicrobial peptides; resistance; efflux pumps; bacterial membranes; synergism
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2. Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: antimicrobial peptides; solid-phase chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; drug delivery systems; peptide drug conjugates; orthogonal chemistry; drug discovery; biomaterials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges in public health. The rate of discovery of new antimicrobial agents has greatly slowed in recent decades. The number of deaths due to infections caused by resistant micro-organisms increases every year. The frequency of resistant, multi-resistant or pan-resistant bacterial isolates is continuously increasing. Thus, it is essential to investigate new alternatives to conventional antibiotics. Among the alternatives envisaged for this purpose antimicrobials peptides emerge as the most promising alternative.
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), either natural or synthetic, are viewed as molecules of extraordinary interest for their ability to kill multidrug-resistant bacteria, but also for their ability to sensitize bacteria to some agents to which they had become resistant.
We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue by submitting papers on purification, synthesis, determination of antimicrobial activity, mechanisms of action, interaction between peptides and membranes, antimicrobial peptides targets, and related topics.
Prof. Dr. Miguel Viñas
Prof. Dr. Fernando Albericio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial peptides (AMPs)
- organic synthesis
- natural antimicrobial peptides
- effects of antimicrobial peptides on bacterial membranes
- targets of AMP
- interaction between AMPs and antibiotics
- AMPs and efflux pumps
