📢 Our November issue is now online! Access the full issue 👉 www.cell.com/trends/bioch....
🎨 The cover highlights a Review from Octávio Franco and colleagues describing self-assembling #antimicrobialpeptides.
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🎨 The cover highlights a Review from Octávio Franco and colleagues describing self-assembling #antimicrobialpeptides.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
📢 Our November issue is now online! Access the full issue 👉 www.cell.com/trends/bioch....
🎨 The cover highlights a Review from Octávio Franco and colleagues describing self-assembling #antimicrobialpeptides.
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🎨 The cover highlights a Review from Octávio Franco and colleagues describing self-assembling #antimicrobialpeptides.
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🔗 Unlocking the specificity of antimicrobial peptide interactions for membrane-targeted therapies. doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...
📚 CSBJ Nanoscience & Advanced Materials: csbj.org/nano
#AntimicrobialPeptides #DrugDiscovery #MolecularDynamics #Biophysics #Bioinformatics #PeptideTherapeutics
📚 CSBJ Nanoscience & Advanced Materials: csbj.org/nano
#AntimicrobialPeptides #DrugDiscovery #MolecularDynamics #Biophysics #Bioinformatics #PeptideTherapeutics
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🔗 Unlocking the specificity of antimicrobial peptide interactions for membrane-targeted therapies. doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...
📚 CSBJ Nanoscience & Advanced Materials: csbj.org/nano
#AntimicrobialPeptides #DrugDiscovery #MolecularDynamics #Biophysics #Bioinformatics #PeptideTherapeutics
📚 CSBJ Nanoscience & Advanced Materials: csbj.org/nano
#AntimicrobialPeptides #DrugDiscovery #MolecularDynamics #Biophysics #Bioinformatics #PeptideTherapeutics
📝Online now - the Review "Molecular design drives nanoarchitecture in self-assembling antimicrobial peptides" from Octavio Franco and colleagues.
#AntimicrobialPeptides #Nanostructures #PeptideBasedTherapeutics
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lhSN3S6Gf...
#AntimicrobialPeptides #Nanostructures #PeptideBasedTherapeutics
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lhSN3S6Gf...
September 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📝Online now - the Review "Molecular design drives nanoarchitecture in self-assembling antimicrobial peptides" from Octavio Franco and colleagues.
#AntimicrobialPeptides #Nanostructures #PeptideBasedTherapeutics
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lhSN3S6Gf...
#AntimicrobialPeptides #Nanostructures #PeptideBasedTherapeutics
Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lhSN3S6Gf...
Overall, TMcin behave in ways like other small #antimicrobialpeptides as a monomer but more like the much larger pore-forming proteins as oligomers.
August 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Overall, TMcin behave in ways like other small #antimicrobialpeptides as a monomer but more like the much larger pore-forming proteins as oligomers.
Our new paper on the novel synthesis of fluorinated Iturin A analogues is online! Well done to my fantastic PhD student Periklis Karamanis and all other involved! #antimicrobialpeptides
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
Novel Synthesis of the Antifungal Cyclic Lipopeptide Iturin A and Its Fluorinated Analog for Structure‐Activity Relationship Studies
Iturin A is an antifungal lipopeptide with a wide range of applications. In this study, we present a novel synthesis of iturin A via enantiomeric synthesis of the β-amino fatty acid and on-resin cycl...
doi.org
July 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Our new paper on the novel synthesis of fluorinated Iturin A analogues is online! Well done to my fantastic PhD student Periklis Karamanis and all other involved! #antimicrobialpeptides
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
Online now - the Review "Proteasome-derived peptides: separating the trash from the recycling" from Anna Brennan, Taylor Church, and Seth Margolis.
#peptides #antimicrobialpeptides #proteasomederivedpeptides #immunoproteasome #neuronalmembraneproteasome
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQDv3S6Gf...
#peptides #antimicrobialpeptides #proteasomederivedpeptides #immunoproteasome #neuronalmembraneproteasome
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQDv3S6Gf...
July 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Online now - the Review "Proteasome-derived peptides: separating the trash from the recycling" from Anna Brennan, Taylor Church, and Seth Margolis.
#peptides #antimicrobialpeptides #proteasomederivedpeptides #immunoproteasome #neuronalmembraneproteasome
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQDv3S6Gf...
#peptides #antimicrobialpeptides #proteasomederivedpeptides #immunoproteasome #neuronalmembraneproteasome
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQDv3S6Gf...
Sharing our latest publication on modulation of IL-17 mediated inflammation by #HostDefencePeptide LL-37 and citrullinated-LL-37 in the context of lung inflammation #Asthma #Immunosky #Immunomodulation #AntimicrobialPeptides pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40410820/
LL-37 and citrullinated-LL-37 modulate IL-17A/F-mediated responses and selectively suppress Lipocalin-2 in bronchial epithelial cells - PubMed
Overall, our findings showed that LL-37 and citLL-37 can selectively suppress the abundance of IL-17A/F-mediated LCN-2, a protein that is critical for neutrophil migration in HBEC. These results sugge...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
May 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Sharing our latest publication on modulation of IL-17 mediated inflammation by #HostDefencePeptide LL-37 and citrullinated-LL-37 in the context of lung inflammation #Asthma #Immunosky #Immunomodulation #AntimicrobialPeptides pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40410820/
The global rise of multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections highlights the urgent need for innovative strategies beyond traditional antibiotics. A new review in Journal of Applied Microbiology critically evaluates the therapeutic potential of #AntimicrobialPeptides. academic.oup.com/jambio/artic...
A critical view of antimicrobial peptides: exploring their potential and the barriers to realization
Abstract. The global rise of multidrug-resistant infections highlights the urgent need for innovative therapeutic strategies beyond traditional antibiotics
academic.oup.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The global rise of multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections highlights the urgent need for innovative strategies beyond traditional antibiotics. A new review in Journal of Applied Microbiology critically evaluates the therapeutic potential of #AntimicrobialPeptides. academic.oup.com/jambio/artic...
Visiting Queens University- Thanks @evakaufmann.bsky.social for the invite! Amazing two days sharing our research on #Asthma #AntimicrobialPeptides #Immunosky & meeting researchers and trainees #WomenInScience
May 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Visiting Queens University- Thanks @evakaufmann.bsky.social for the invite! Amazing two days sharing our research on #Asthma #AntimicrobialPeptides #Immunosky & meeting researchers and trainees #WomenInScience
April 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The mechanisms & regulation of insect #antimicrobialpeptides & #HDPs is of wide interest. We now appreciate their function in vivo is much more complex than what's described in vitro.
Our primer on insect AMP regulation, evolution & function.
Pub: doi.org/10.1016/B978...
🟩OA: bit.ly/MHLH2025
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Our primer on insect AMP regulation, evolution & function.
Pub: doi.org/10.1016/B978...
🟩OA: bit.ly/MHLH2025
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April 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The mechanisms & regulation of insect #antimicrobialpeptides & #HDPs is of wide interest. We now appreciate their function in vivo is much more complex than what's described in vitro.
Our primer on insect AMP regulation, evolution & function.
Pub: doi.org/10.1016/B978...
🟩OA: bit.ly/MHLH2025
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Our primer on insect AMP regulation, evolution & function.
Pub: doi.org/10.1016/B978...
🟩OA: bit.ly/MHLH2025
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Happy to share our latest minireview on
Drosophila symbionts in infection: when a friend becomes an enemy | Infection and Immunity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #insect #endosymbiont #symbiosis
Drosophila symbionts in infection: when a friend becomes an enemy | Infection and Immunity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #insect #endosymbiont #symbiosis
Drosophila symbionts in infection: when a friend becomes an enemy | Infection and Immunity
Occupying the interface between host and environment, host-associated microbes play
essential roles in interactions with pathogens and influence disease progression (1–4). Considering that most entry ...
journals.asm.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy to share our latest minireview on
Drosophila symbionts in infection: when a friend becomes an enemy | Infection and Immunity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #insect #endosymbiont #symbiosis
Drosophila symbionts in infection: when a friend becomes an enemy | Infection and Immunity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #insect #endosymbiont #symbiosis
Some hashtags:
#immunity #Dros25 #Drosophila #antimicrobialpeptides #NFkB #inflammation #ImmunoSky #Infection #pathogen
And if you want to learn more about these modules and how you could incorporate them in your research, check our our free book: "The Drosophila Immunity Handbook"
bit.ly/3z429p5
#immunity #Dros25 #Drosophila #antimicrobialpeptides #NFkB #inflammation #ImmunoSky #Infection #pathogen
And if you want to learn more about these modules and how you could incorporate them in your research, check our our free book: "The Drosophila Immunity Handbook"
bit.ly/3z429p5
April 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Some hashtags:
#immunity #Dros25 #Drosophila #antimicrobialpeptides #NFkB #inflammation #ImmunoSky #Infection #pathogen
And if you want to learn more about these modules and how you could incorporate them in your research, check our our free book: "The Drosophila Immunity Handbook"
bit.ly/3z429p5
#immunity #Dros25 #Drosophila #antimicrobialpeptides #NFkB #inflammation #ImmunoSky #Infection #pathogen
And if you want to learn more about these modules and how you could incorporate them in your research, check our our free book: "The Drosophila Immunity Handbook"
bit.ly/3z429p5
Thank you goes out to amazing collaborators Marcus Fletcher, Kareem Al Nahas, John Connolly, Niels Röckendorf, Dominik Schwudke and many more supporters and to the Phospholipid Research Center Heidelberg for funding our project on #liposomes, #antimicrobialPeptides and #microfluidics!
March 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Thank you goes out to amazing collaborators Marcus Fletcher, Kareem Al Nahas, John Connolly, Niels Röckendorf, Dominik Schwudke and many more supporters and to the Phospholipid Research Center Heidelberg for funding our project on #liposomes, #antimicrobialPeptides and #microfluidics!
Full list of Antimicrobial Peptide #Feed hashtags:
#AMPs
#HDPs
#AntimicrobialPeptides
#AntimicrobialPeptide
#HostDefensePeptide
#HostDefencePeptide
#HostDefensePeptides
#HostDefencePeptides
#GRCAMP2025
(last updated Feb 27th 2025)
#AMPs
#HDPs
#AntimicrobialPeptides
#AntimicrobialPeptide
#HostDefensePeptide
#HostDefencePeptide
#HostDefensePeptides
#HostDefencePeptides
#GRCAMP2025
(last updated Feb 27th 2025)
February 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Full list of Antimicrobial Peptide #Feed hashtags:
#AMPs
#HDPs
#AntimicrobialPeptides
#AntimicrobialPeptide
#HostDefensePeptide
#HostDefencePeptide
#HostDefensePeptides
#HostDefencePeptides
#GRCAMP2025
(last updated Feb 27th 2025)
#AMPs
#HDPs
#AntimicrobialPeptides
#AntimicrobialPeptide
#HostDefensePeptide
#HostDefencePeptide
#HostDefensePeptides
#HostDefencePeptides
#GRCAMP2025
(last updated Feb 27th 2025)
For attendees of #GRCAMP2025, interested in #AntimicrobialPeptides / #AMPs, or #HostDefencePeptides / #HDPs, I've made a Feed to collect posts using these (and other) hashtags! 📣 🧬
bsky.app/profile/hans...
If you use hashtags in the Feed description list, your posts will be included in this Feed 🙂
bsky.app/profile/hans...
If you use hashtags in the Feed description list, your posts will be included in this Feed 🙂
February 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
For attendees of #GRCAMP2025, interested in #AntimicrobialPeptides / #AMPs, or #HostDefencePeptides / #HDPs, I've made a Feed to collect posts using these (and other) hashtags! 📣 🧬
bsky.app/profile/hans...
If you use hashtags in the Feed description list, your posts will be included in this Feed 🙂
bsky.app/profile/hans...
If you use hashtags in the Feed description list, your posts will be included in this Feed 🙂
Adding #GRCAMP2025 which will send this post and replies to my new #AntimicrobialPeptides feed: bsky.app/profile/hans...
Using any of hashtags in Feed description will automatically send those posts to the Feed in the future. And one can reply with any of those hashtags to get a post sent to it.
Using any of hashtags in Feed description will automatically send those posts to the Feed in the future. And one can reply with any of those hashtags to get a post sent to it.
February 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Adding #GRCAMP2025 which will send this post and replies to my new #AntimicrobialPeptides feed: bsky.app/profile/hans...
Using any of hashtags in Feed description will automatically send those posts to the Feed in the future. And one can reply with any of those hashtags to get a post sent to it.
Using any of hashtags in Feed description will automatically send those posts to the Feed in the future. And one can reply with any of those hashtags to get a post sent to it.
Thank you @verndolinsky.bsky.social for the invite. It was a wonderful engaging audience at the Pharmacology seminar series - lots of great questions about the utility of #HostDefencePeptides #AntimicrobialPeptides as therapeutics.
Join the Pharmacology seminar series this FRIDAY at NOON to hear from Neeloffer Mookherjee @nmookherjee.bsky.social speak about "Harnessing the biology of host defense peptides to modulate lung inflammation" Join us in A207 Chown or VIA ZOOM @um-radyfhs.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thank you @verndolinsky.bsky.social for the invite. It was a wonderful engaging audience at the Pharmacology seminar series - lots of great questions about the utility of #HostDefencePeptides #AntimicrobialPeptides as therapeutics.
Available online - the Spotlight "Journey to the past: #MolecularDeextinction enables the discovery of ancient β-#defensins and highlights their evolutionary history" from @fgosti.bsky.social.
#moleculardynamicsimulation #genomemining #antimicrobialpeptides
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kK%7EK3S6...
#moleculardynamicsimulation #genomemining #antimicrobialpeptides
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kK%7EK3S6...
January 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Available online - the Spotlight "Journey to the past: #MolecularDeextinction enables the discovery of ancient β-#defensins and highlights their evolutionary history" from @fgosti.bsky.social.
#moleculardynamicsimulation #genomemining #antimicrobialpeptides
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kK%7EK3S6...
#moleculardynamicsimulation #genomemining #antimicrobialpeptides
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kK%7EK3S6...
🚨 Review Preprint Alert 🚨
Discover how computational and experimental tools are employed in antimicrobial peptide (AMP) research for combating bacteria.
Great Collaboration with Eggeling and Gutsmann Labs
Read now on chemRxiv
#AntimicrobialPeptides #membranes @fau.de
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Discover how computational and experimental tools are employed in antimicrobial peptide (AMP) research for combating bacteria.
Great Collaboration with Eggeling and Gutsmann Labs
Read now on chemRxiv
#AntimicrobialPeptides #membranes @fau.de
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
December 3, 2024 at 5:58 PM
🚨 Review Preprint Alert 🚨
Discover how computational and experimental tools are employed in antimicrobial peptide (AMP) research for combating bacteria.
Great Collaboration with Eggeling and Gutsmann Labs
Read now on chemRxiv
#AntimicrobialPeptides #membranes @fau.de
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Discover how computational and experimental tools are employed in antimicrobial peptide (AMP) research for combating bacteria.
Great Collaboration with Eggeling and Gutsmann Labs
Read now on chemRxiv
#AntimicrobialPeptides #membranes @fau.de
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Hello all! I am Dr. Neeloffer Mookherjee, research interests include immunity-related functions of #HostDefencePeptides #AntimicrobialPeptides Regulation of Inflammation in chronic disease #Asthma & #Arthritis Let’s talk science!
November 29, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Hello all! I am Dr. Neeloffer Mookherjee, research interests include immunity-related functions of #HostDefencePeptides #AntimicrobialPeptides Regulation of Inflammation in chronic disease #Asthma & #Arthritis Let’s talk science!
Final published version of Miruna and Chris' (and my) first study using machine learning to identify behaviour of #antimicrobialpeptides that only emerges when used in combinations. Is this a key property that keeps AMPs effective throughout evolutionary history? pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Emergent conformational and aggregation properties of synergistic antimicrobial peptide combinations
Synergy between antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) may be the key to their evolutionary success and could be exploited to develop more potent antibacterial agents. One of the factors thought to be essentia...
pubs.rsc.org
November 15, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Final published version of Miruna and Chris' (and my) first study using machine learning to identify behaviour of #antimicrobialpeptides that only emerges when used in combinations. Is this a key property that keeps AMPs effective throughout evolutionary history? pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
New on my "to-read" list: #AntimicrobialPeptides (AMPs or HDPs) are key to fight infections. But there's a building literature on their knock-on effects. This study proposes the AMP "Attacin D" is actually autotoxic, damaging #Drosophila kidneys (MTs) when induced.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A Nonsecretory Antimicrobial Peptide Mediates Inflammatory Organ Damage in Drosophila Renal Tubules
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
June 13, 2024 at 7:35 AM
New on my "to-read" list: #AntimicrobialPeptides (AMPs or HDPs) are key to fight infections. But there's a building literature on their knock-on effects. This study proposes the AMP "Attacin D" is actually autotoxic, damaging #Drosophila kidneys (MTs) when induced.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Novel gramicidin-derived 𝛽-helical antimicrobialpeptides https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.31.573784v1
Novel gramicidin-derived 𝛽-helical antimicrobialpeptides https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.31.573784v1
Combating the threat of multidrug resistance bacteria requires many different approaches. Using stru
www.biorxiv.org
January 2, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Novel gramicidin-derived 𝛽-helical antimicrobialpeptides https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.31.573784v1