Antiviral peptides as promising therapeutic drugs

Glycodendritic structures: promising new antiviral drugs.

DC-SIGN, a C-type lectin expressed by dendritic cells, is able to recognize high mannosylated glycoproteins at the surface of a broad range of pathogens including viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. For at least some of these agents this interaction appears to be an important part of the infection process. Therefore, this lectin might be considered in the design of new antiviral drugs. In t...

Natural moieties as promising anti - cancer drugs

There have been a variety of chemical drugs that are being synthesized for cancer treatment. Besides the development of number of therapeutic drugs, cancer is still one of the leading cause for mortality worldwide. One associated reason for high rate of mortality in cancer, is side effects of the existing drug therapy. However recent inventions using natural metabolites have demonstrated the lo...

Antimicrobial Peptides as Therapeutic Agents

Copyright © 2012 Mathew Upton et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In developing this special issue, we sought to raise awareness of the potential of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) for clinical use and to highligh...

Peptides as Drugs: Discovery and Development

Peptides as Promising Non-Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy