Biochemistry, mechanistic intricacies, and therapeutic potential of Antimicrobial Peptides: an alternative to traditional Antibiotics.
Manish DwivediMeet Dineshbhai ParmarDebalina MukherjeeAnuradha YadavaHitendra YadavNandini Pankaj SainiPublished in: Current medicinal chemistry (2023)
The emergence of drug-resistant strains of pathogens becomes a major obstacle to treating human diseases. Antibiotics and antivirals are in the application for a long time but now these drugs are not much effective anymore against disease-causing drug-resistant microbes and gradually it is becoming a serious complication worldwide. The development of new antibiotics cannot be a stable solution to treat drug-resistant strains due to their evolving nature and escaping antibiotics. At this stage, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) may provide us with novel therapeutic leads against drug-resistant pathogens. Structurally, antimicrobial peptides are mostly α-helical peptide molecules with amphiphilic properties that carry the positive charge (cationic) and it belong to host defence peptides. These positively charged AMPs can interact with negatively charged bacterial cell membranes and may cause the alteration in electrochemical potential on bacterial cell membranes and consequently lead to the death of microbial cells. In the present study, we will elaborate on the implication of AMPs in the treatment of various diseases along with their specific structural and functional properties. This review will provide information which assists in the development of new synthetic peptide analogues to natural AMPs. These analogues will eliminate the limitations of natural AMPs like toxicity and severe hemolytic activities.
Keyphrases
- drug resistant
- multidrug resistant
- acinetobacter baumannii
- gram negative
- single cell
- escherichia coli
- endothelial cells
- induced apoptosis
- molecular docking
- stem cells
- early onset
- antimicrobial resistance
- cell cycle arrest
- ionic liquid
- risk assessment
- healthcare
- bone marrow
- drug induced
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- cystic fibrosis
- climate change
- mass spectrometry
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- label free
- signaling pathway
- molecularly imprinted
- social media
- solid phase extraction