Journal ArticleAuthors : Randall, Justin R. (2023)
Host-defense peptides are an evolutionarily conserved group of natural antimicrobial peptides which fight pathogens through direct antimicrobial activity and/or by modulating the host immune response during infection1. Antibacterial host-defense peptides generally kill bacteria directly through cell membrane disruption, but many show difficulties differentiating bacterial and mammalian cell membranes, complicating clinical use. Though some aspects of membrane selectivity have been describ...