Design, Screening, and Testing of Non-Rational Peptide Libraries with Antimicrobial Activity: In Silico and Experimental Approaches

• Main Authors: Paola Ruiz Puentes (Author), María C. Henao (Author), Carlos E. Torres (Author), Saúl C. Gómez (Author), Laura A. Gómez (Author), Juan C. Burgos (Author), Pablo Arbeláez (Author), Johann F. Osma (Author), Carolina Muñoz-Camargo (Author), Luis H. Reyes (Author), Juan C. Cruz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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One of the challenges of modern biotechnology is to find new routes to mitigate the resistance to conventional antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are an alternative type of biomolecules, naturally present in a wide variety of organisms, with the capacity to overcome the current microorganism...