A New Hope: Self-Assembling Peptides with Antimicrobial Activity

A New Hope: Self-Assembling Peptides with Antimicrobial Activity

Peptide drugs hold great promise for the treatment of infectious diseases thanks to their novel mechanisms of action, low toxicity, high specificity, and ease of synthesis and modification. Naturally developing self-assembly in nature has inspired remarkable interest in self-assembly of peptides to...

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Main Authors: Lucia Lombardi, Annarita Falanga, Valentina Del Genio, Stefania Galdiero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-04-01
Series:Pharmaceutics
Subjects:
self-assembling
peptide
antimicrobial activity
nanomaterial
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/11/4/166

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