[HTML][HTML] Reassessing the host defense peptide landscape

EF Haney, SK Straus, REW Hancock - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Current research has demonstrated that small cationic amphipathic peptides have strong
potential not only as antimicrobials, but also as antibiofilm agents, immune modulators, and …

Antiviral peptides as promising therapeutic drugs

LCP Vilas Boas, ML Campos, RLA Berlanda… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
While scientific advances have led to large-scale production and widespread distribution of
vaccines and antiviral drugs, viruses still remain a major cause of human diseases today …

Accelerated antimicrobial discovery via deep generative models and molecular dynamics simulations

P Das, T Sercu, K Wadhawan, I Padhi… - Nature Biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
The de novo design of antimicrobial therapeutics involves the exploration of a vast chemical
repertoire to find compounds with broad-spectrum potency and low toxicity. Here, we report …

Computer-aided design of antimicrobial peptides: are we generating effective drug candidates?

MH Cardoso, RQ Orozco, SB Rezende… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), especially antibacterial peptides, have been widely
investigated as potential alternatives to antibiotic-based therapies. Indeed, naturally …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptides and their interaction with biofilms of medically relevant bacteria

G Batoni, G Maisetta, S Esin - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
Biofilm-associated infections represent one of the major threats of modern medicine. Biofilm-
forming bacteria are encased in a complex mixture of extracellular polymeric substances …

A review on antimicrobial peptides databases and the computational tools

S Ramazi, N Mohammadi, A Allahverdi, E Khalili… - Database, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) have been considered as potential alternatives for
infection therapeutics since antibiotic resistance has been raised as a global problem. The …

In silico optimization of a guava antimicrobial peptide enables combinatorial exploration for peptide design

WF Porto, L Irazazabal, ESF Alves, SM Ribeiro… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Plants are extensively used in traditional medicine, and several plant antimicrobial peptides
have been described as potential alternatives to conventional antibiotics. However, after …

Machine learning designs non-hemolytic antimicrobial peptides

A Capecchi, X Cai, H Personne, T Köhler… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Machine learning (ML) consists of the recognition of patterns from training data and offers
the opportunity to exploit large structure–activity databases for drug design. In the area of …

Recent progress in the discovery and design of antimicrobial peptides using traditional machine learning and deep learning

J Yan, J Cai, B Zhang, Y Wang, DF Wong, SWI Siu - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance has become a critical global health problem due to the abuse of
conventional antibiotics and the rise of multi-drug-resistant microbes. Antimicrobial peptides …

Machine learning and data science in soft materials engineering

AL Ferguson - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In many branches of materials science it is now routine to generate data sets of such large
size and dimensionality that conventional methods of analysis fail. Paradigms and tools from …