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Antimicrobial peptides : discovery, design and novel therapeutic strategies /

This book contains 14 chapters focusing on discovery, classification and functional diversity of antimicrobial peptides; structural and functional diversity of cathelicidins; disulfide-linked defensins; prediction and design of antimicrobial peptides - methods and applications to genomes and proteom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wang, Guangshun
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA : CABI, [2017]
Edición:2nd edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.