Antimicrobial Activities of Twenty Lysine-Peptoid Hybrids against Clinically Relevant Bacteria and Fungi

Magainins, a class of antimicrobial peptides from Xenopus skin: isolation, characterization of two active forms, and partial cDNA sequence of a precursor.

M Zasloff · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1987 · 2.3K citations · Full text

Broad-spectrum Antimicrobial Activity, Bioorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry +15

Plectasin is a peptide antibiotic with therapeutic potential from a saprophytic fungus

Per Mygind, Rikke L. Fischer, Kirk Schnorr et al. · Nature · 2005 · 649 citations

Therapeutic Potential, Antifungal Agent, Medicine +7

Indolicidin, a novel bactericidal tridecapeptide amide from neutrophils.

Michael E. Selsted, MJ Novotny, Wendy L. Morris et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1992 · 545 citations · Full text

Bioorganic Chemistry, Multiple Tryptophan Residues, Escherichia Coli +16

Protegrin-1: a broad-spectrum, rapidly microbicidal peptide with in vivo activity

D. A. Steinberg, Malinda A. Hurst, Craig A. Fujii et al. · Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · 1997 · 386 citations · Full text

Microbicidal Peptide, Molecular Biology, Medical Microbiology +19

Antibacterial Activity and Specificity of the Six Human α-Defensins

Bryan Ericksen, Zhibin Wu, Wuyuan Lu et al. · Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · 2004 · 323 citations · Full text

Antibacterial Activity, Escherichia Coli, Peptide Science +19