Host Defense Peptides and Their Potential as Therapeutic Agents

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Epand, Richard M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Immunology.; Microbiology.; Medical biochemistry.; Proteins.; Life Sciences.; Protein Science.; Applied Microbiology.; Medical Biochemistry.

This book offers an overview of our current understanding of host defense peptides and their potential for clinical applications as well as some of the obstacles to this. The chapters, written by leading experts in the field, detail the number and diversity of host defense peptides, and discuss the...

Table of Contents:

• Diversity in Host Defense Antimicrobial Peptides
• Antifungal Host Defense Peptides
• Antiviral Host Defense Peptides
• Anticancer peptides: prospective innovation in cancer therapy
• Plant Antimicrobial Peptides
• Host Defense Peptides and the Eicosanoid Cascade
• Bacterial resistance to host defence peptides
• Engineered OAKs Against Antibiotic Resistance and for Bacterial Detection
• Structural Analysis of Amphibian, Insect and Plant Host Defense Peptides Inspires the Design of Novel Therapeutic Molecules
• How to teach old antibiotics new tricks
• Antimicrobial peptides and Preterm Birth
• Host defense peptides and their advancements in translational Staphylococcus aureus research.<.