The Potential Use of Natural and Structural Analogues of Antimicrobial Peptides in the Fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases

Leprosy: Steps Along the Journey of Eradication

(2017) Brian H. Bennett et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS

Immunocytochemical detection of beta-defensins and cathelicidins in the secretory granules of the tongue in the lizard Anolis carolinensis

(2015) Lorenzo Alibardi   ACTA HISTOCHEMICA

Isolation, identification and functional profile of excretory–secretory peptides from Onchocerca ochengi

(2015) Raphael Eberle et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Population Pharmacokinetics of Benznidazole in Adult Patients with Chagas Disease

(2015) D. Soy et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Defensins: “Simple” antimicrobial peptides or broad-spectrum molecules?

(2015) Meggy Suarez-Carmona et al.   CYTOKINE & GROWTH FACTOR REVIEWS

Natural Products for the Treatment of Trachoma and Chlamydia trachomatis

(2015) Michael Potroz et al.   MOLECULES

The Role of Phosphoglycans in the Susceptibility of Leishmania mexicana to the Temporin Family of Anti-Microbial Peptides

(2015) Gabriela Eggimann et al.   MOLECULES

Advances in Development of New Treatment for Leishmaniasis

(2015) Juliana Perrone Bezerra de Menezes et al.   Biomed Research International

Chitosan nanoparticles loaded with the antimicrobial peptide temporin B exert a long-term antibacterial activity in vitro against clinical isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis

(2015) Anna M. Piras et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Expression and purification of cyto-insectotoxin (Cit1a) using silkworm larvae targeting for an antimicrobial therapeutic agent

(2014) M. P. Ali et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Identification of natural antimicrobial agents to treat dengue infection: In vitro analysis of latarcin peptide activity against dengue virus

(2014) Hussin A Rothan et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Baceridin, a Cyclic Hexapeptide from an EpiphyticBacillusStrain, Inhibits the Proteasome

(2014) Jutta Niggemann et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Recent Clinical Trials for the Etiological Treatment of Chronic Chagas Disease: Advances, Challenges and Perspectives

(2014) Julio A. Urbina   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Design, characterization and expression of a novel hybrid peptides melittin (1–13)-LL37 (17–30)

(2014) Rujuan Wu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

Design of protease-resistant pexiganan enhances antileishmanial activity

(2014) Manjusha M. Kulkarni et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Right Place, Wrong Species: A 20-Year Review of Rabies Virus Cross Species Transmission among Terrestrial Mammals in the United States

(2014) Ryan M. Wallace et al.   PLoS One

Drug repurposing and human parasitic protozoan diseases

(2014) Katherine T. Andrews et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Drugs and Drug Resistance

Antimicrobial peptides: a new class of antimalarial drugs?

(2014) Nuno Vale et al.   Frontiers in Pharmacology

Hybrid Melittin Cytolytic Peptide-Driven Ultrasmall Lipid Nanoparticles Block Melanoma Growth in Vivo

(2013) Chuan Huang et al.   ACS Nano

Cationic Host Defence Peptides: Potential as Antiviral Therapeutics

(2013) Emily Gwyer Findlay et al.   BIODRUGS

Antimicrobial peptides isolated from Phyllomedusa nordestina (Amphibia) alter the permeability of plasma membrane of Leishmania and Trypanosoma cruzi

(2013) Erika Gracielle Pinto et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance: A bitter fight against evolution

(2013) Alexandro Rodríguez-Rojas et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Inhibition of Dengue Virus Entry into Target Cells Using Synthetic Antiviral Peptides

(2013) Mohammed Abdelfatah Alhoot et al.   International Journal of Medical Sciences

Eudragit® L100/N-Trimethylchitosan Chloride Microspheres for Oral Insulin Delivery

(2013) Etienne Marais et al.   MOLECULES

Anti-leishmanial activity of the antimicrobial peptide DRS 01 observed in Leishmania infantum (syn. Leishmania chagasi) cells

(2013) Peter Eaton et al.   Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine

The global distribution and burden of dengue

(2013) Samir Bhatt et al.   NATURE

Antimicrobial peptides stage a comeback

(2013) Jeffrey L Fox   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Scalable web services for the PSIPRED Protein Analysis Workbench

(2013) Daniel W. A. Buchan et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Surprising New Dengue Virus Throws a Spanner in Disease Control Efforts

(2013) D. Normile   SCIENCE

Melittin peptide kills Trypanosoma cruzi parasites by inducing different cell death pathways

(2013) Camila M. Adade et al.   TOXICON

Imaging the action of antimicrobial peptides on living bacterial cells

(2013) Michelle L. Gee et al.   Scientific Reports

Economic and Disease Burden of Dengue in Southeast Asia

(2013) Donald S. Shepard et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Killer Bee Molecules: Antimicrobial Peptides as Effector Molecules to Target Sporogonic Stages of Plasmodium

(2013) Victoria Carter et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Usefulness of pumpkin seeds combined with areca nut extract in community-based treatment of human taeniasis in northwest Sichuan Province, China

(2012) Tiaoying Li et al.   ACTA TROPICA

In VitroActivities of Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides Alone and in Combination against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms

(2012) Emel Mataraci et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Antimicrobial peptide from spider venom inhibits Chlamydia trachomatis infection at an early stage

(2012) Vassili N. Lazarev et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Antibacterial and leishmanicidal activities of temporin-SHd, a 17-residue long membrane-damaging peptide

(2012) Feten Abbassi et al.   BIOCHIMIE

A comprehensive summary of LL-37, the factotum human cathelicidin peptide

(2012) Dieter Vandamme et al.   CELLULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Detection of Taenia solium Taeniasis Coproantigen Is an Early Indicator of Treatment Failure for Taeniasis

(2012) Javier A. Bustos et al.   Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Functional analysis and induction of four novel goose (Anser cygnoides) avian β-defensins in response to salmonella enteritidis infection

(2012) Deying Ma et al.   COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Antimicrobial Peptide Action on Parasites

(2012) Marc Torrent et al.   CURRENT DRUG TARGETS

In vitro activity of Pheroid vesicles containing antibiotics against Plasmodium falciparum

(2012) Lissinda H Du Plessis et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS

θ-Defensins: Cyclic Peptides with Endless Potential: FIGURE 1.

(2012) Robert I. Lehrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Antiviral activity of casein and αs2casein hydrolysates against the infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus, a rhabdovirus from salmonid fish

(2012) S Rodríguez Saint-Jean et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES

Sensing of RNA Viruses: a Review of Innate Immune Receptors Involved in Recognizing RNA Virus Invasion

(2012) S. Jensen et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Cathelicidins: family of antimicrobial peptides. A review

(2012) Ewa M. Kościuczuk et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

MicroRNA-21 targets the vitamin D–dependent antimicrobial pathway in leprosy

(2012) Philip T Liu et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Impact of long-term treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in Kaduna State, Nigeria: first evidence of the potential for elimination in the operational area of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control

(2012) Afework Tekle et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Apis mellifera venom induces different cell death pathways in Trypanosoma cruzi

(2012) CAMILA M. ADADE et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Human Beta-Defensin 3 Is Up-Regulated in Cutaneous Leprosy Type 1 Reactions

(2012) Anna L. Cogen et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Inducing toxicity by introducing a leucine-zipper-like motif in frog antimicrobial peptide, magainin 2

(2011) Brijesh Kumar Pandey et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Mycobacterium leprae–host-cell interactions and genetic determinants in leprosy: an overview

(2011) Roberta Olmo Pinheiro et al.   Future Microbiology

Will new generations of modified antimicrobial peptides improve their potential as pharmaceuticals?

(2011) Nicole K. Brogden et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

The Potential of Antimicrobial Peptides as Biocides

(2011) Garry Laverty et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Studies on the antileishmanial properties of the antimicrobial peptides temporin A, B and 1Sa

(2011) Frances L. Chadbourne et al.   JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Ligand-Bound Structures of the Dengue Virus Protease Reveal the Active Conformation

(2011) C. G. Noble et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Iron metabolism and the innate immune response to infection

(2011) Erin E. Johnson et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Leishmanicidal activity of synthetic antimicrobial peptides in an infection model with human dendritic cells

(2011) José Julián Pérez-Cordero et al.   PEPTIDES

Recombinant production of antimicrobial peptides in Escherichia coli: A review

(2011) Yifeng Li   PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION

Avian cathelicidins: Paradigms for the development of anti-infectives

(2011) A. van Dijk et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

Induction and function of type I and III interferon in response to viral infection

(2011) David E Levy et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Structural determinants of host defense peptides for antimicrobial activity and target cell selectivity

(2010) Daisuke Takahashi et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Neglected tropical diseases

(2010) N. Feasey et al.   BRITISH MEDICAL BULLETIN

Dengue virus life cycle: viral and host factors modulating infectivity

(2010) Izabela A. Rodenhuis-Zybert et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Trypanosoma cruzi: Synergistic cytotoxicity of multiple amphipathic anti-microbial peptides to T. cruzi and potential bacterial hosts

(2010) Annabeth Fieck et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Interactions of antimicrobial peptides with Leishmania and trypanosomes and their functional role in host parasitism

(2010) Bradford S. McGwire et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Taenia solium: current understanding of laboratory animal models of taeniosis

(2010) A. FLISSER et al.   PARASITOLOGY

A carpet-based mechanism for direct antimicrobial peptide activity against vaccinia virus membranes

(2010) R.E. Dean et al.   PEPTIDES

The human cathelicidin hCAP18/LL-37: A multifunctional peptide involved in mycobacterial infections

(2010) Patricia Méndez-Samperio   PEPTIDES

Cost-effective expression and purification of antimicrobial and host defense peptides in Escherichia coli

(2010) B. Bommarius et al.   PEPTIDES

Best Practices in Dengue Surveillance: A Report from the Asia-Pacific and Americas Dengue Prevention Boards

(2010) Mark E. Beatty et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Alpha-helical cationic antimicrobial peptides: relationships of structure and function

(2010) Yibing Huang et al.   Protein & Cell

Fungicidal effect of antimicrobial peptide arenicin-1

(2009) Cana Park et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

The salmonid cathelicidins: A gene family with highly varied C-terminal antimicrobial domains

(2009) Marco Scocchi et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Neglected Diseases Caused By Bacterial Infections

(2009) M. Bechtle et al.   CURRENT MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Anionic Antimicrobial Peptides from Eukaryotic Organisms

(2009) Frederick Harris et al.   CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Cathelicidin peptide SMAP-29: comprehensive review of its properties and potential as a novel class of antibiotics

(2009) Raymond M. Dawson et al.   DRUG DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

Leishmania donovani: Thionins, plant antimicrobial peptides with leishmanicidal activity

(2009) Marta Berrocal-Lobo et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Multifunctional host defense peptides: intracellular-targeting antimicrobial peptides

(2009) Pierre Nicolas   FEBS Journal

Antimicrobial Peptide-induced Apoptotic Death ofLeishmaniaResults from Calcium-de pend ent, Caspase-independent Mitochondrial Toxicity

(2009) Manjusha M. Kulkarni et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Functional Haplotypes That Produce Normal Ficolin‐2 Levels Protect against Clinical Leprosy

(2009) Iara de Messias‐Reason et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Why do larval helminths avoid the gut of intermediate hosts?

(2009) G.A. Parker et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Rescuing the bottom billion through control of neglected tropical diseases

(2009) Peter J Hotez et al.   LANCET

Human African trypanosomiasis

(2009) Reto Brun et al.   LANCET

Characterization of three novel β-defensin antimicrobial peptides in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

(2009) Elisa Casadei et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

The cell biology of rabies virus: using stealth to reach the brain

(2009) Matthias J. Schnell et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Killing of Trypanosomatid Parasites by a Modified Bovine Host Defense Peptide, BMAP-18

(2009) Lee R. Haines et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Control of cell selectivity of antimicrobial peptides

(2008) Katsumi Matsuzaki   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Effects of Cations and PH on Antimicrobial Activity of Thanatin and s-Thanatin Against Escherichia coli ATCC25922 and B. subtilis ATCC 21332

(2008) Guoqiu Wu et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Antimicrobial peptides and self-DNA in autoimmune skin inflammation

(2008) Michel Gilliet et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN IMMUNOLOGY

Structural proteomics of dengue virus

(2008) Rushika Perera et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Innate immunity to virus infection

(2008) Osamu Takeuchi et al.   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Neutrophil primary granule proteins HBP and HNP1–3 boost bacterial phagocytosis by human and murine macrophages

(2008) Oliver Soehnlein et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Helminth infections: the great neglected tropical diseases

(2008) Peter J. Hotez et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Toll‐Like Receptor 2(TLR2)Polymorphisms Are Associated with Reversal Reaction in Leprosy

(2008) Pierre‐Yves Bochud et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Antimicrobial peptides (Temporin A and Iseganan IB-367): Effect on the cysticerci of Taenia crassiceps

(2008) Abraham Landa et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases Involved in the Production of Medically Relevant Natural Products

(2008) Elizabeth A. Felnagle et al.   MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS

APD2: the updated antimicrobial peptide database and its application in peptide design

(2008) Guangshun Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Isolation, characterization and molecular cloning of new temporins from the skin of the North African ranid Pelophylax saharica

(2008) Feten Abbassi et al.   PEPTIDES

Identification and characterization of novel reptile cathelicidins from elapid snakes

(2008) Hui Zhao et al.   PEPTIDES

Fighting rabies in Africa: The Africa Rabies Expert Bureau (AfroREB)

(2008) Betty Dodet et al.   VACCINE

Immune modulating effect by a phosphoprotein-deleted rabies virus vaccine vector expressing two copies of the rabies virus glycoprotein gene

(2008) Jonathan Cenna et al.   VACCINE

Dengue Virus–Mosquito Interactions

(2007) Scott B. Halstead   Annual Review of Entomology

Trypanocidal and leishmanicidal activities of different antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) isolated from aquatic animals

(2007) S.E. Löfgren et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Interferons and viruses: an interplay between induction, signalling, antiviral responses and virus countermeasures

(2007) R. E. Randall et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY