Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Jun 26, 2024
Membrane-disrupting and pore-forming peptides (PFPs) play a substantial role in bionanotechnology and can determine the life and death of cells. The control of chemical and ion transport through cell membranes is essential to maintaining concentratio...
, a gram-negative coccobacillus bacterium, can cause various infections in humans, including septic arthritis, diarrhea (traveler's diarrhea), gastroenteritis, skin and wound infections, meningitis, fulminating septicemia, enterocolitis, peritonitis,...
Many pore-forming proteins originating from pathogenic bacteria are toxic against agricultural pests. They are the key ingredients in several pesticidal products for agricultural use, including transgenic crops. There is an urgent need to identify no...
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial peptides are promising tools to fight against ever-growing antibiotic resistance. However, despite many advantages, their toxicity to mammalian cells is a critical obstacle in clinical application and needs to be addressed.
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Oct 11, 2021
The ubiquitous antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), with a broad range of antimicrobial activities, represent a great promise for combating the multi-drug resistant infections. In this study, using a large and diverse set of AMPs (2638) and non-AMPs (3700)...
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are oligopeptides that act as crucial components of innate immunity, naturally occur in all multicellular organisms, and are involved in the first line of defense function. Recent studies showed that AMPs per...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jun 3, 2021
In the last two decades, a large number of machine-learning-based predictors for the activities of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been proposed. These predictors differ from one another in the learning method and in the training and testing data ...
BACKGROUND: Current methods in machine learning provide approaches for solving challenging, multiple constraint design problems. While deep learning and related neural networking methods have state-of-the-art performance, their vulnerability in decis...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 31, 2021
Antibiotic resistance is a critical public health problem. Each year ∼2.8 million resistant infections lead to more than 35 000 deaths in the U.S. alone. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) show promise in treating resistant infections. However, applicatio...
Antimicrobial resistance is an increasing issue in healthcare as the overuse of antibacterial agents rises during the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for new antibiotics is high, while the arsenal of available agents is decreasing, especially for the tre...