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Protein & Peptide Letters

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ISSN (Print): 0929-8665
ISSN (Online): 1875-5305

The Amazing World of Peptide Engineering: the Example of Antimicrobial Peptides from Frogs and Their Analogues

Author(s): Aline B. Guimarães, Fabiano J.Q. Costa, Osmindo R.P. Júnior, Wagner Fontes and Mariana S. Castro

Volume 23, Issue 8, 2016

Page: [722 - 737] Pages: 16

DOI: 10.2174/0929866523666160530185137

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Abstract

This review discusses the importance and properties of antimicrobial peptides from frogs and their synthetic analogues as potential therapeutic alternatives in fighting not only bacterial infections, but also protozoans involved with the major neglected diseases, which afflict human populations (e.g., Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness, Leishmaniasis and malaria). Here, we emphasize their multifunctional properties such as promising broad-spectrum drugs that target protozoan parasites too.

Keywords: Anurans, antimicrobial peptides, analogues, protozoa.


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