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

Protein Pept Lett. 2016;23(8):722-37. doi: 10.2174/0929866523666160530185137.

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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Infective Agents / metabolism
  • Anti-Infective Agents / pharmacology
  • Anti-Infective Agents / therapeutic use
  • Anura / metabolism*
  • Chagas Disease / drug therapy
  • Humans
  • Leishmaniasis / drug therapy
  • Malaria / drug therapy
  • Parasites / drug effects*
  • Peptides / metabolism*
  • Peptides / pharmacology*
  • Peptides / therapeutic use
  • Trypanosomiasis, African / drug therapy

Substances

  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Peptides