Combination of Six Individual Derivatives of the Pom-1 Antibiofilm Peptide Doubles Their Efficacy against Invasive and Multi-Resistant Clinical Isolates of the Pathogenic Yeast <i>Candida</i> <i>albicans</i>

• Main Authors: Michelle Häring (Author), Valerie Amann (Author), Ann-Kathrin Kissmann (Author), Tilmann Herberger (Author), Christopher Synatschke (Author), Nicole Kirsch-Pietz (Author), Julio A. Perez-Erviti (Author), Anselmo J. Otero-Gonzalez (Author), Fidel Morales-Vicente (Author), Jakob Andersson (Author), Tanja Weil (Author), Steffen Stenger (Author), Armando Rodríguez (Author), Ludger Ständker (Author), Frank Rosenau (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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In previous studies, derivatives of the peptide Pom-1, which was originally extracted from the freshwater mollusk <i>Pomacea poeyana,</i> showed an exceptional ability to specifically inhibit biofilm formation of the laboratory strain ATCC 90028 as a model strain of the pathogenic yeast...