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Insights Into [Aacute]-Aa Peptides And Ã-Aa Peptides As Broad Spectrum Antimicrobial Peptidomimetics And As Anti-Biofilm Agents, Shruti Padhee
Insights Into [Aacute]-Aa Peptides And Ã-Aa Peptides As Broad Spectrum Antimicrobial Peptidomimetics And As Anti-Biofilm Agents, Shruti Padhee
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The emergent resistance of bacteria against the conventional antibiotics has motivated the search for novel antimicrobial agents. Nature abounds with a number of antimicrobial peptides that are a part of our innate immune system and protect us against a variety of pathogenic bacteria. While they are broad-spectrum in their activity and show less drug-resistance induction, their intrinsic metabolic stability limits their potential therapeutic applications. Herein we describe the development of novel broad-spectrum bioactive antimicrobial peptidomimetics AA-peptides. AApeptides were designed based on chiral PNA backbone. Substitution of nucleobases yields AApeptides that are resistant to proteolysis and capable of mimicking peptides. Two …