Advancements in peptide-based antimicrobials: A possible option for emerging drug-resistant infections

N Yadav, VS Chauhan - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, multidrug-resistant pathogenic microorganisms (MDROs) have emerged as
a severe threat to human health, exhibiting robust resistance to traditional antibiotics. This …

Structure–Activity Relationships of the Antimicrobial Peptide Natural Product Apidaecin

KJ Skowron, C Baliga, T Johnson… - Journal of medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the growing crisis of antimicrobial resistance, it is critical to continue to seek out new
sources of novel antibiotics. This need has led to renewed interest in natural product …

Antimicrobial peptide-based strategies to overcome antimicrobial resistance

M Girdhar, A Sen, A Nigam, J Oswalia, S Kumar… - Archives of …, 2024 - Springer
Antibiotic resistance has emerged as a global threat, rendering the existing conventional
treatment strategies ineffective. In view of this, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have proven to …

Structural basis for translation inhibition by the glycosylated drosocin peptide

TO Koller, M Morici, M Berger, HA Safdari… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
The proline-rich antimicrobial peptide (PrAMP) drosocin is produced by Drosophila species
to combat bacterial infection. Unlike many PrAMPs, drosocin is O-glycosylated at threonine …

Rumicidins are a family of mammalian host-defense peptides plugging the 70S ribosome exit tunnel

PV Panteleev, EB Pichkur, RN Kruglikov… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The antimicrobial resistance crisis along with challenges of antimicrobial discovery revealed
the vital necessity to develop new antibiotics. Many of the animal proline-rich antimicrobial …

Sequence diversity of apidaecin-like peptides arresting the terminating ribosome

W Huang, C Baliga, N Vázquez-Laslop… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Proline-rich Antimicrobial Peptide (PrAMP) apidaecin (Api) inhibits translation
by binding in the ribosomal nascent peptide exit tunnel, trapping release factors RF1 or RF2 …

Activity, structure, and diversity of Type II proline-rich antimicrobial peptides from insects

W Huang, C Baliga, EV Aleksandrova, G Atkinson… - EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Abstract Apidaecin 1b (Api), the first characterized Type II Proline-rich antimicrobial peptide
(PrAMP), is encoded in the honey bee genome. It inhibits bacterial growth by binding in the …

Stereorandomized oncocins with preserved ribosome binding and antibacterial activity

BH Gan, E Bonvin, T Paschoud… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We recently showed that solid-phase peptide synthesis using racemic amino acids yields
stereorandomized peptides comprising all possible diastereomers as homogeneous, single …

Shaping the Future of Antimicrobial Therapy: Harnessing the Power of Antimicrobial Peptides in Biomedical Applications

AK Tripathi, J Singh, R Trivedi, P Ranade - Journal of Functional …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have emerged as a promising class of bioactive molecules
with the potential to combat infections associated with medical implants and biomaterials …

When the microbiome shapes the host: immune evolution implications for infectious disease

MA Hanson - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The microbiome includes both 'mutualist'and 'pathogen'microbes, regulated by the same
innate immune architecture. A major question has therefore been: how do hosts prevent …