Antimicrobial peptides from membrane-interacting stretches of bacterial proteins

Abstract

In the present day scenario, tackling multi-drug resistant organisms has become quite challenging. Escalating rate of resistance and slow discovery of antibiotics has brought us back to pre-antibiotic period. Therefore, it has become utmost important to design new antimicrobials that can efficiently kill microbes and has less chances of acquiring resistance. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) hold promise to be one such molecules that can ward-off a broad range of invading microrganisms without insti