A New Hope: Self-Assembling Peptides with Antimicrobial Activity

Overview

Journal Pharmaceutics

Publisher MDPI

Date 2019 Apr 17

PMID 30987353

Citations 43

Authors

Lucia Lombardi

Annarita Falanga

Valentina Del Genio

Stefania Galdiero

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Abstract

Peptide drugs hold great promise for the treatment of infectious diseases thanks to their novel mechanisms of action, low toxicity, high specificity, and ease of synthesis and modification. Naturally developing self-assembly in nature has inspired remarkable interest in self-assembly of peptides to functional nanomaterials. As a matter of fact, their structural, mechanical, and functional advantages, plus their high bio-compatibility and bio-degradability make them excellent candidates for facilitating biomedical applications. This review focuses on the self-assembly of peptides for the fabrication of antibacterial nanomaterials holding great interest for substituting antibiotics, with emphasis on strategies to achieve nano-architectures of self-assembly. The antibacterial activities achieved by these nanomaterials are also described.

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