The Amazing World of Peptide Engineering: the Example of Antimicrobial Peptides from Frogs and Their Analogues.

The Amazing World of Peptide Engineering: the Example of Antimicrobial Peptides from Frogs and Their Analogues.
Protein Pept Lett. 2016 May 30;
Authors: Guimarães AB, Costa FJ, Pires Júnior OR, Fontes W, Castro MS
Abstract
This review discusses the importance and properties of antimicrobial peptides from frogs and their synthetic analogues as potential therapeutic alternatives in fighting not only bacterial infections but also protozoans involved with the major neglected diseases, which afflict human populations (e.g., Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness, Leishmaniasis and malaria). Here, we emphasize their multifunctional properties such as promising broad-spectrum drugs that also target protozoan parasites.
PMID: 27262306 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Protein and Peptide Letters - May 29, 2016 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Guimarães AB, Costa FJ, Pires Júnior OR, Fontes W, Castro MS Tags: Protein Pept Lett Source Type: research