Molecular Design, Structures, and Activity of Antimicrobial Peptide-Mimetic Polymers

Pseudomonas fluorescens can induce and divert the human β-defensin-2 secretion in intestinal epithelial cells to enhance its virulence

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Transcriptome of Dickeya dadantii Infecting Acyrthosiphon pisum Reveals a Strong Defense against Antimicrobial Peptides

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Antimicrobial and Antifouling Hydrogels Formed In Situ from Polycarbonate and Poly(ethylene glycol) via Michael Addition

(2012) Shao Qiong Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Cationic Spacer Arm Design Strategy for Control of Antimicrobial Activity and Conformation of Amphiphilic Methacrylate Random Copolymers

(2012) Edmund F. Palermo et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Design and Synthesis of Self-Degradable Antibacterial Polymers by Simultaneous Chain- and Step-Growth Radical Copolymerization

(2012) Masato Mizutani et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Unique concentration dependence on the fusion of anionic liposomes induced by polyethyleneimine

(2012) Kazuma Yasuhara et al.   COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS

Therapeutic Potential of Host Defense Peptides in Antibiotic-resistant Infections

(2012) Nicole J. Afacan et al.   CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN

Identification and Design of Antimicrobial Peptides for Therapeutic Applications

(2012) Aqeel Ahmad et al.   CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Poly(ethylene imine)s as Antimicrobial Agents with Selective Activity

(2012) Katherine A. Gibney et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

Emerging trends in macromolecular antimicrobials to fight multi-drug-resistant infections

(2012) Amanda C. Engler et al.   Nano Today

Modulating immunity as a therapy for bacterial infections

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Host-defense peptides of Australian anurans. Part 2. Structure, activity, mechanism of action, and evolutionary significance

(2012) John H. Bowie et al.   PEPTIDES

Antimicrobial polymers as synthetic mimics of host-defense peptides

(2012) Kenichi Kuroda et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology

Antimicrobial Polymers in Solution and on Surfaces: Overview and Functional Principles

(2012) Felix Siedenbiedel et al.   Polymers

One-Step Photochemical Synthesis of Permanent, Nonleaching, Ultrathin Antimicrobial Coatings for Textiles and Plastics

(2011) Vikram P Dhende et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Antibacterial Studies of Cationic Polymers with Alternating, Random, and Uniform Backbones

(2011) Airong Song et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Investigations of the Interactions between Synthetic Antimicrobial Polymers and Substrate-Supported Lipid Bilayers Using Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

(2011) Christopher W. Avery et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Antibacterial Mechanism of Action of Arylamide Foldamers

(2011) Bruk Mensa et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Block versus Random Amphiphilic Copolymers as Antibacterial Agents

(2011) Yukari Oda et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Rational design of smart supramolecular assemblies for gene delivery: chemical challenges in the creation of artificial viruses

(2011) Kanjiro Miyata et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Peptide promiscuity: An evolutionary concept for plant defense

(2011) Octavio Luiz Franco   FEBS LETTERS

Signal integration by the Cpx-envelope stress system

(2011) Sabine Hunke et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Biodegradable nanostructures with selective lysis of microbial membranes

(2011) Fredrik Nederberg et al.   Nature Chemistry

Polymeric materials with antimicrobial activity

(2011) Alexandra Muñoz-Bonilla et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Activity and Mechanism of Antimicrobial Peptide-Mimetic Amphiphilic Polymethacrylate Derivatives

(2011) Iva Sovadinova et al.   Polymers

Structural determinants of antimicrobial activity in polymers which mimic host defense peptides

(2010) Edmund F. Palermo et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Antimicrobial polymers: mechanism of action, factors of activity, and applications

(2010) Larisa Timofeeva et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Mechanism of Polymer-Induced Hemolysis: Nanosized Pore Formation and Osmotic Lysis

(2010) Iva Sovadinova et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Arginine in Membranes: The Connection Between Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Translocon-Mediated Insertion Experiments

(2010) Eric V. Schow et al.   JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE BIOLOGY

Sequence-Dependent Interaction of β-Peptides with Membranes

(2010) Jagannath Mondal et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Role of Cationic Group Structure in Membrane Binding and Disruption by Amphiphilic Copolymers

(2010) Edmund F. Palermo et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

How antibiotics kill bacteria: from targets to networks

(2010) Michael A. Kohanski et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

De Novo Design of Antimicrobial Polymers, Foldamers, and Small Molecules: From Discovery to Practical Applications

(2009) Gregory N. Tew et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Polyethyleneimine Coating Enhances the Cellular Uptake of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles and Allows Safe Delivery of siRNA and DNA Constructs

(2009) Tian Xia et al.   ACS Nano

Chemical Structure of Cationic Groups in Amphiphilic Polymethacrylates Modulates the Antimicrobial and Hemolytic Activities

(2009) Edmund F. Palermo et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Structural Determinants of Antimicrobial Activity and Biocompatibility in Membrane-Disrupting Methacrylamide Random Copolymers

(2009) Edmund F. Palermo et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Cell-Wall Interactions and the Selective Bacteriostatic Activity of a Miniature Oligo-Acyl-Lysyl

(2009) Raquel F. Epand et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Structure−activity Relationships among Random Nylon-3 Copolymers That Mimic Antibacterial Host-Defense Peptides

(2009) Brendan P. Mowery et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Waves of resistance: Staphylococcus aureus in the antibiotic era

(2009) Henry F. Chambers et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Insertion of short transmembrane helices by the Sec61 translocon

(2009) Simon Jaud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

De novo design and in vivo activity of conformationally restrained antimicrobial arylamide foldamers

(2009) S. Choi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Antibiotics for Emerging Pathogens

(2009) M. A. Fischbach et al.   SCIENCE

New Antimicrobial Molecules and New Antibiotic Strategies

(2009) Felipe Rodríguez de Castro et al.   SEMINARS IN RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Polymeric Materials for Gene Delivery and DNA Vaccination

(2008) David N. Nguyen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Antibacterial and Hemolytic Activities of Pyridinium Polymers as a Function of the Spatial Relationship between the Positive Charge and the Pendant Alkyl Tail

(2008) Varun Sambhy et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Insights into the Mode of Action of Chitosan as an Antibacterial Compound

(2008) D. Raafat et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Adrenaline modulates the global transcriptional profile of Salmonella revealing a role in the antimicrobial peptide and oxidative stress resistance responses

(2008) MH Karavolos et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Role of Hydrophobicity in the Antimicrobial and Hemolytic Activities of Polymethacrylate Derivatives

(2008) Kenichi Kuroda et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Antimicrobial Polymers Prepared by ROMP with Unprecedented Selectivity: A Molecular Construction Kit Approach

(2008) Karen Lienkamp et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Amphiphilic Branched Polymers as Antimicrobial Agents

(2008) Nicolas Pasquier et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE