Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a huge challenge to the effective treatment of
infectious diseases. Aside from a modest number of novel anti‐infective agents, very few …

Data mining has been recognized by many researchers as a hot topic in different areas. In
the post-genomic era, the growing number of sequences deposited in databases has been …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) seem to be promising alternatives to common antibiotics,
which are facing increasing bacterial resistance. Among them are the cysteine-stabilized αβ …

The antimicrobial peptides (AMP) have been proposed as an alternative to control resistant
pathogens. However, due to multifunctional properties of several AMP classes, until now …

Insects make up the largest and most diverse group of organisms on earth with several
million species to exist in total. Considering the sheer number of insect species and the vast …

Fungi are a newly emerging source of peptide antibiotics with therapeutic potential. Here,
we report 17 new fungal defensin-like peptide (fDLP) genes and the detailed …

Scorpion K+ channel toxins and insect defensins share a conserved three-dimensional
structure and related biological activities (defense against competitors or invasive microbes …

Abstract Background Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are an essential component of innate
immunity which can rapidly respond to diverse microbial pathogens. Insects, as a rich …

Insect defensins are a large family of antimicrobial peptides primarily active against Gram-
positive bacteria. Here, we explore their hidden anti-Gram-negative bacterial potential via a …

Abstract Bac8c (RIWVIWRR-NH 2) is an analogue peptide derived through complete
substitution analysis of the linear bovine host defense peptide variant Bac2A. In the present …