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PROBIOTICS AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEINS
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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12602-023-10061-x
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Antimicrobial peptides; Marine AMPs; Antibacterial; Antifungal; Anticancer; Innate immunity
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The emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens has created a global health crisis, leading to the urgent need for alternatives to antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides, found in various marine organisms, offer a unique potential as they have broad-spectrum activity, low cytotoxicity, and high stability. This review aims to synthesize information on distinctive marine antimicrobial peptides discovered in the past decade and discuss their prospects.
The emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens due to improper usage of conventional antibiotics has created a global health crisis. Alternatives to antibiotics being an urgent need, the scientific community is forced to search for new antimicrobials. This exploration has led to the discovery of antimicrobial peptides, a group of small peptides occurring in different phyla such as Porifera, Cnidaria, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Echinodermata, and Chordata, as a component of their innate immune system. The marine environment, possessing immense diversity of organisms, is undoubtedly one of the richest sources of unique potential antimicrobial peptides. The distinctiveness of marine antimicrobial peptides lies in their broad-spectrum activity, mechanism of action, less cytotoxicity, and high stability, which form the benchmark for developing a potential therapeutic. This review aims to (1) synthesise the available information on the distinctive antimicrobial peptides discovered from marine organisms, particularly over the last decade, and (2) discuss the distinctiveness of marine antimicrobial peptides and their prospects.
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