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Record Nr.

UNINA9910446318603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK, : CABI, c2010

ISBN

1-282-89349-1

9786612893490

1-84593-694-9

Edizione

[18th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 230 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ; ; 18

Altri autori (Persone)

WangGuangshun

Disciplina

615/.1

Soggetti

Peptide antibiotics

Pharmaceutical chemistry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; PART I: NATURAL ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES: NOMENCLATURE, CLASSIFICATION AND INTERESTING TEMPLATES FOR PEPTIDE ENGINEERING; PART II: EXPANDING THE PEPTIDE SPACE: PREDICTION METHODS, DESIGN STRATEGIES AND PEPTIDOMIMETICS; PART III: BIOPHYSICS, STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY AND MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES; PART IV: NOVEL THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES TO BOLSTER HOST DEFENCE; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) are an organism's built-in defence molecules that have attracted extensive research attention worldwide. Harnessing and creating them synthetically has the potential to help overcome increasing antibiotic resistance in many pathogens. In addition to covering the current advances in AMP research, this volume examines new technologies such as bioinformatics, combinatorial libraries, high-throughput screening, peptidomimetics, biophysics, and structural biology. This volume also describes new methods and strategies for AMP prediction, design, and applications that ov