Intracellular targeting mechanisms by antimicrobial peptides

CF Le, CM Fang, SD Sekaran - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
… the membrane structure, giving a … contributed toward the stronger double-helix DNA-binding
affinity in BF2-C. We have summarized a list of AMPs with reported intracellular targeting

The proteome targets of intracellular targeting antimicrobial peptides

P Shah, FSH Hsiao, YH Ho, CS Chen - Proteomics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
contributed by polar amino acid residues such as arginine, lysine and histidine 26. Antimicrobial
… -sheet, loop and extended structure, however, α-helices and β-sheet structure are more …

Cell-penetrating antimicrobial peptides with anti-infective activity against intracellular pathogens

GS Cruz, AT Santos, EHS Brito, G Radis-Baptista - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Whether on one side, microorganisms evolved strategies to … and act intracellularly,
consequently contributing to increasing … sets, strategies of structural design and peptide

Antimicrobial peptides: Structure, mechanism, and modification

N Chen, C Jiang - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
… Mechanism of intracellular targeting … Length also affects the secondary structure and action
mode of the peptide… residues, some of which may not contribute to antibacterial activity [78,79]…

The structure-mechanism relationship and mode of actions of antimicrobial peptides: A review

S Li, Y Wang, Z Xue, Y Jia, R Li, C He… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
structures. The main mechanisms of AMPs were divided into membrane targets and intracellular
targets… For most AMPs, the high affinity for microbial membranes contribute to the overall …

Antimicrobial peptides and cell-penetrating peptides for treating intracellular bacterial infections

DF Buccini, MH Cardoso, OL Franco - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… , antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) have shown great
potential to treat such infections by acting directly on the intracellular … existing peptide structures

Antimicrobial peptides: from design to clinical application

C Zhang, M Yang - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
… ], contributing an important role in autoimmune diseases [20]. … antimicrobial activity are
very effective against intracellular … database of antimicrobial activity and structure of peptides (…

Mode-of-action of antimicrobial peptides: membrane disruption vs. intracellular mechanisms

AH Benfield, ST Henriques - Frontiers in Medical Technology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… -membrane interactions and investigate the effect of peptides on the structure of lipid bilayers.
… Liposomes are unilamellar or multilamellar structures obtained by suspending lipids in an …

Non-lytic antibacterial peptides that translocate through bacterial membranes to act on intracellular targets

MH Cardoso, BT Meneguetti, BO Costa… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
… perspective on indolicidin’s structure by the formation of extended and β-turn structures [27]. …
are intrinsically related to the presence of PXP motifs, which contribute to the ordered …

Molecular engineering of antimicrobial peptides: Microbial targets, peptide motifs and translation opportunities

P Cardoso, H Glossop, TG Meikle, A Aburto-Medina… - Biophysical …, 2021 - Springer
… Gramicidin was the first reported antimicrobial peptide (AMP), isolated from the soil bacteria
… global interest and research efforts were devoted to antimicrobial peptides, due to the rise of …