Design, optimization, and nanotechnology of antimicrobial peptides: From exploration to applications

P Tan, H Fu, X Ma - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance caused by antibiotic abuse, especially the emergence of multi-drug
resistant bacteria, poses a serious threat to human health, and makes it imperative to find …

Self‐Assembling Peptide‐Based Functional Biomaterials

Y Huo, J Hu, Y Yin, P Liu, K Cai, W Ji - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Peptides can self‐assemble into various hierarchical nanostructures through noncovalent
interactions and form functional materials exhibiting excellent chemical and physical …

Self-assembling peptide dendron nanoparticles with high stability and a multimodal antimicrobial mechanism of action

Z Lai, Q Jian, G Li, C Shao, Y Zhu, X Yuan, H Chen… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Self-assembling nanometer-scale structured peptide polymers and peptide dendrimers have
shown promise in biomedical applications due to their versatile properties and easy …

Advancements in antimicrobial nanoscale materials and self-assembling systems

JA Doolan, GT Williams, KLF Hilton… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial resistance is directly responsible for more deaths per year than either
HIV/AIDS or malaria and is predicted to incur a cumulative societal financial burden of at …

Structure–activity relationships of antibacterial peptides

MG Ciulla, F Gelain - Microbial biotechnology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial peptides play a crucial role in innate immunity, whose components are mainly
peptide‐based molecules with antibacterial properties. Indeed, the exploration of the …

Potential broad-spectrum antimicrobial, wound healing, and disinfectant cationic peptide crafted from snake venom

S Sen, R Samat, M Jash, S Ghosh, R Roy… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial cationic peptides are intriguing and propitious antibiotics for the future, even
against multidrug-resistant superbugs. Venoms serve as a source of cutting-edge …

Amyloid-Inspired Engineered Multidomain Amphiphilic Injectable Peptide Hydrogel─ An Excellent Antibacterial, Angiogenic, and Biocompatible Wound Healing …

N Mukherjee, S Ghosh, J Sarkar, R Roy… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ingrained mechanical robustness of amyloids in association with their fine-tunable
physicochemical properties results in the rational design and synthesis of tailor-made …

A new hope: self-assembling peptides with antimicrobial activity

L Lombardi, A Falanga, V Del Genio, S Galdiero - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Peptide drugs hold great promise for the treatment of infectious diseases thanks to their
novel mechanisms of action, low toxicity, high specificity, and ease of synthesis and …

Light and sound to trigger the Pandora's box against breast cancer: A combination strategy of sonodynamic, photodynamic and photothermal therapies

Z Liu, J Li, W Chen, L Liu, F Yu - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
An ideal strategy to eliminate cancerous lesions is to implement light/sound as the most
natural approaches, so that a non-invasive treatment can be realized to decrease the …

Designing Cardin-Motif Peptide and Heparin-Based Multicomponent Advanced Bioactive Hydrogel Scaffolds to Control Cellular Behavior

S Sen, P Sharma, VK Pal, S Roy - Biomacromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recently, peptide and sugar-based multicomponent systems have gained much interest in
attaining the sophisticated structure and biofunctional complexity of the extracellular matrix …