Antimicrobial Peptides: Mechanisms of Action and Resistance

How Membrane-Active Peptides Get into Lipid Membranes

(2016) Marc-Antoine Sani et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Improving short antimicrobial peptides despite elusive rules for activity

(2016) Ralf Mikut et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Gram-positive bacterial cell envelopes: The impact on the activity of antimicrobial peptides

(2016) Nermina Malanovic et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Synthetic antibiofilm peptides

(2016) César de la Fuente-Núñez et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

A pH-dependent charge reversal peptide for cancer targeting

(2016) Naoko Wakabayashi et al.   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

Systematic Analysis of Intracellular-targeting Antimicrobial Peptides, Bactenecin 7, Hybrid of Pleurocidin and Dermaseptin, Proline–Arginine-rich Peptide, and Lactoferricin B, by UsingEscherichia coliProteome Microarrays

(2016) Yu-Hsuan Ho et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Lights, Camera, Action! Antimicrobial Peptide Mechanisms Imaged in Space and Time

(2016) Heejun Choi et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

β-Peptoid Foldamers at Last

(2015) Jonas S. Laursen et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Cationic amphipathic peptides KT2 and RT2 are taken up into bacterial cells and kill planktonic and biofilm bacteria

(2015) Thitiporn Anunthawan et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

D-Enantiomeric Peptides that Eradicate Wild-Type and Multidrug-Resistant Biofilms and Protect against Lethal Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections

(2015) César de la Fuente-Núñez et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

Non-Membrane Permeabilizing Modes of Action of Antimicrobial Peptides on Bacteria

(2015) Marco Scocchi et al.   CURRENT TOPICS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

APD3: the antimicrobial peptide database as a tool for research and education

(2015) Guangshun Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Integration of Posttranscriptional Gene Networks into Metabolic Adaptation and Biofilm Maturation in Candida albicans

(2015) Jiyoti Verma-Gaur et al.   PLoS Genetics

How Many Antimicrobial Peptide Molecules Kill a Bacterium? The Case of PMAP-23

(2014) Daniela Roversi et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Covalent immobilization of hLf1-11 peptide on a titanium surface reduces bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation

(2014) Maria Godoy-Gallardo et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Synergistic Interactions of Vancomycin with Different Antibiotics against Escherichia coli: Trimethoprim and Nitrofurantoin Display Strong Synergies with Vancomycin against Wild-Type E. coli

(2014) Alice Zhou et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Increased survival of experimentally evolved antimicrobial peptide-resistantStaphylococcus aureusin an animal host

(2014) Adam J. Dobson et al.   Evolutionary Applications

TMJ Disc Displacement without Reduction Management

(2014) M. Al-Baghdadi et al.   JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH

The SMART model: Soft Membranes Adapt and Respond, also Transiently, in the presence of antimicrobial peptides

(2014) Burkhard Bechinger   JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Molecular Packing of Amphipathic Peptides on the Surface of Lipid Membranes

(2014) Christopher Aisenbrey et al.   LANGMUIR

Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Daptomycin-Resistant Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains: Relative Roles of mprF and dlt Operons

(2014) Nagendra N. Mishra et al.   PLoS One

Antimicrobial GL13K Peptide Coatings Killed and Ruptured the Wall of Streptococcus gordonii and Prevented Formation and Growth of Biofilms

(2014) Xi Chen et al.   PLoS One

Small cationic antimicrobial peptides delocalize peripheral membrane proteins

(2014) M. Wenzel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nature versus design: the conformational propensities of d-amino acids and the importance of side chain chirality

(2014) Clare-Louise Towse et al.   PROTEIN ENGINEERING DESIGN & SELECTION

How Listeria monocytogenes organizes its surface for virulence

(2014) Filipe Carvalho et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Strategies for the inhibition of gingipains for the potential treatment of periodontitis and associated systemic diseases

(2014) Ingar Olsen et al.   Journal of Oral Microbiology

Antimicrobial Peptide GL13K Is Effective in Reducing Biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2013) Helmut Hirt et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Membrane selectivity and biophysical studies of the antimicrobial peptide GL13K

(2013) Vinod Balhara et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Staphylococcus aureussubverts cutaneous defense byd-alanylation of teichoic acids

(2013) Maren Simanski et al.   EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY

RND multidrug efflux pumps: what are they good for?

(2013) Carolina Alvarez-Ortega et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

In vitro evaluation of the potential for resistance development to ceragenin CSA-13

(2012) J. E. Pollard et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Trivalent Ultrashort Lipopeptides are Potent pH Dependent Antifungal Agents

(2012) Christopher J. Arnusch et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Lysine substitutions convert a bacterial-agglutinating peptide into a bactericidal peptide that retains anti-lipopolysaccharide activity and low hemolytic activity

(2012) Mahsa Abdolhosseini et al.   PEPTIDES

Isomerization of an Antimicrobial Peptide Broadens Antimicrobial Spectrum to Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogens

(2012) Chiara Falciani et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial resistance mechanisms against host defense peptides

(2011) Tomaz Koprivnjak et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Antimicrobial peptides and periodontal disease

(2011) Sven-Ulrik Gorr et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PERIODONTOLOGY

The importance of bacterial membrane composition in the structure and function of aurein 2.2 and selected variants

(2010) John T.J. Cheng et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Selective substitution of amino acids limits proteolytic cleavage and improves the bioactivity of an anti-biofilm peptide that targets the periodontal pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis

(2010) Carlo Amorin Daep et al.   PEPTIDES

Contribution of Porphyromonas gingivalis lipopolysaccharide to periodontitis

(2010) Sumita Jain et al.   PERIODONTOLOGY 2000

Antimicrobial peptides of the oral cavity

(2009) Sven-Ulrik Gorr   PERIODONTOLOGY 2000