State of the Art of Membrane Active Peptides, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Targeting and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2024 | Viewed by 128
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, 8 Clarkson Avenue, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA
3. Center for Fundamental Research and Experimental Development in Translation Medicine–TRANSCEND, Regional Institute of Oncology, 700483 Iasi, Romania
Interests: peptide chemistry; amyloid peptides; mass spectrometry; proteomics; enzymatic substrates; lysosomal rare diseases
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Interests: cell penetrating peptides; antimicrobial peptides; fluorescence microscopy; molecular interactions; biomimetic systems; drug delivery systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “State of the Art of Membrane Active Peptides, 2nd Edition”. This issue is focused on membrane-active peptides that interact with the cell membrane and exert their biological activity by delivering different molecules inside cells or by disrupting the membrane followed cell lysis. Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) surmount the membrane barrier and deliver a great number of cargoes into the cells. CPPs act by the direct translocation of the membrane, pore formation or by endocytic routes. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are components of the innate immunity and serve as first line protection against pathogens. Nowadays, multidrug-resistant bacteria to available antibiotics represent a major challenge, and AMPs are used to create a new generation of antibacterial drugs. Antimicrobial peptides target the bacterial membrane and lyse it using different mechanisms, such as the toroidal pore, the carpet model or the barrel stave model. Membrane-active peptides are considered as promising alternatives to current pharmaceuticals. However, their therapeutic potential is restricted by the current understanding of their molecular mechanism of action.
This Special Issue aims to bring together the latest advances regarding the molecular mechanism of peptide internalization, techniques to reveal these modes of peptide uptake and develop new peptide sequences, biological activity, applications and clinical data.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Molecular mechanisms of membrane-active peptides;
- Techniques to reveal the molecular mechanisms of membrane-active peptides;
- Recent advances in applications of membrane-active peptides in biotechnology and medicine;
- New peptide sequences and their biological activity;
- Drug delivery systems based on membrane-active peptides.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Brînduşa Alina Petre
Dr. Corina Ciobanasu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cell-penetrating peptides
- antimicrobial peptides
- homing peptides
- drug delivery system
- cellular internalization
- nanoparticles
- cellular targeting
- therapeutics
- diagnostics
Related Special Issue
- State of the Art of Membrane Active Peptides in Pharmaceutics (14 articles)
