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Antimicrobial Peptides : Basics for Clinical Application / edited by Katsumi Matsuzaki.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Matsuzaki, Katsumi, editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
Series:
Biomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)
Advances in experimental medicine and biology 0065-2598 ; 1117.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 0065-2598 ; 1117
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Toxicology.
Biochemistry.
Oncology.
Pharmacology/Toxicology.
Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.
Biochemistry, general.
Cancer Research.
Local Subjects:
Pharmacology/Toxicology.
Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.
Biochemistry, general.
Cancer Research.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (VIII, 304 pages) : 73 illustrations, 55 illustrations in color.
Edition:
First edition 2019.
Contained In:
Springer eBooks
Place of Publication:
Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
System Details:
text file PDF
Summary:
This book presents an overview of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), their mechanisms of antimicrobial action, other activities, and various problems that must still be overcome regarding their clinical application. Divided into four major parts, the book begins with a general overview of AMPs (Part I), and subsequently discusses the various mechanisms of antimicrobial action and methods for researching them (Part 2). It then addresses a range of activities other than antimicrobial action, such as cell penetration, antisepsis, anticancer, and immunomodulatory activities (Part 3), and explores the prospects of clinical application from various standpoints such as the selective toxicity, design, and discovery of AMPs (Part 4). A huge number of AMPs have been discovered in plants, insects, and vertebrates including humans, and constitute host defense systems against invading pathogenic microorganisms. Consequently, many attempts have been made to utilize AMPs as antibiotics. AMPs could help to solve the urgent problem of drug-resistant bacteria, and are also promising with regard to sepsis and cancer therapy. Gathering a wealth of information, this book will be a bible for all those seeking to develop antibiotics, anti-sepsis, or anticancer agents based on AMPs.
Contents:
Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. Antimicrobial peptides of multicellular organisms: My perspective
Part 2. Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Action
Chapter 2. Membrane permeabilization mechanisms
Chapter 3. Elementary processes and mechanisms of interactions of antimicrobial peptides with membranes
- single GUV studies
Chapter 4. The mechanisms of action of cationic antimicrobial peptides refined by novel concepts from biophysical investigations
Chapter 5. Anionic lipid clustering model
Chapter 6. Intracellular antimicrobial peptides targeting the protein synthesis machinery
Part 3. Other activities of AMPs
Chapter 7. Antimicrobial and cell-penetrating peptides: How to understand two distinct functions despite similar physicochemical properties
Chapter 8. Synthetic anti-lipopolysaccharide peptides (SALP) as effective inhibitors of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)
Chapter 9. Anti-cancer activities of natural and synthetic peptides
Chapter 10. Antimicrobial host defence peptides: Immunomodulatory functions and translational prospects
Part 4. Towards Clinical Applications
Chapter 11. Activity and selectivity of antimicrobial peptides: A complex interplay of multiple equilibria
Chapter 12. Design of antimicrobial peptides: Progress made with human cathelicidin LL-37
Chapter 13. Application of synthetic molecular evolution to the discovery of antimicrobial peptides
Chapter 14. AMPs as anti-biofilm agents for human therapy and prophylaxis
Chapter 15. Clinical application of AMPs. .
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Printed edition:
ISBN:
978-981-13-3588-4
9789811335884
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