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SUBMITTER: Mahlapuu M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5186781 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mahlapuu Margit M Håkansson Joakim J Ringstad Lovisa L Björn Camilla C
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 20161227
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also known as host defense peptides, are short and generally positively charged peptides found in a wide variety of life forms from microorganisms to humans. Most AMPs have the ability to kill microbial pathogens directly, whereas others act indirectly by modulating the host defense systems. Against a background of rapidly increasing resistance development to conventional antibiotics all over the world, efforts to bring AMPs into clinical use are accelerating. Seve ...[more]