Distinct profiling of antimicrobial peptide families.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The increased prevalence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogens heightens the need to design new antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) exhibit broad-spectrum potent activity against MDR pathogens and kills rapidly, thus giving rise to AMPs being recognized as a potential substitute for conventional antibiotics. Designing new AMPs using current in-silico approaches is, however, challenging due to the absence of suitable models, large number of design parameters, testing cycles, production time and cost. To date, AMPs have merely been categorized into families according to their primary sequences, structures and functions. The ability to computationally determine the properties that discriminate AMP families from each other could help in exploring the key ch

SUBMITTER: Khamis AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4380027 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature