Antimicrobial peptides : discovery, design and novel therapeutic strategies / edited by Guangshun Wang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wang, Guangshun, editor.

Standardized Title:

Antimicrobial peptides (Wang)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peptide antibiotics.

Drugs--Design.

Drugs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 268 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire, England ; Boston, Massachusetts : CABI, [2017]

Summary:

This thoroughly updated new edition lays the foundations for studying antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), including a discovery timeline, terminology, nomenclature and classifications. It covers current advances in research, examines state-of-the-art technologies, and describes new methods and strategies for AMP prediction, design and applications.

Contents:

Discovery, classification and functional diversity of antimicrobial peptides / Guangshun Wang

Structural and functional diversity of cathelicidins / Alessandro Tossi, Barbara Skerlavaj, Francesca D'Este and Renato Gennaro

Disulfide-linked defensins and their therapeutic potential

Monique von Hoek

Lantibiotics : bioengineering and applications / Brian Healy and Paul Cotter

Discovery of novel antimicrobial peptides using combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening / Charles G. Starr and William C. Wimley

Prediction and design of antimicrobial peptides: methods and applications to genomes and proteomes / Guangshun Wang

Antimicrobial peptides, multiple mechanisms against a variety of targets / Li-av Segev-Zarko, Maria Luisa Mangoni and Yechiel Shai

Microbial membranes and the action of antimicrobial peptides / José Carlos Bozelli Junior, Shirley Schreier and Richard Epand

Non-membrane-targeting amps, novel therapeutic opportunities? / Marco Scocchi, Mario Mardirossian, Giulia Runti and Monica Benincasa

Structural insight into the mechanism of action of antimicrobial peptides and structure-based design / Guangshun Wang

Synergy of antimicrobial peptides / Moswabar H. Chowdhury, Gill Diamond and Lisa Kathleen Ryan

Surface immobilization of antimicrobial peptides to prevent biofilm formation / Biswajit Mishra, Scott Reiling and Guangshun Wang

Sustained delivery of cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide-inducing compounds to minimize infection and enhance wound healing / Jingwei Xie, Gitali Ganguli-Indra,, Arup K. Indra and Adrian Gombart

Immunomodulatory activities of cationic host defense peptides and novel therapeutic strategies / Kelli C. Wuerth and Robert Hancock.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786390417

1786390418

9781786390400

178639040X