In recent years, hundreds of naturally occurring peptide antibiotics have been discovered based on their ability to inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens. These antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) participate in the innate immune response by providing a rapid first-line defence against infection. This review discusses the biology and clinical relevance of the two major families of AMPs, cathelici...

Alcohol Management Plans (AMPs) are a relatively new instrument joining the extensive range of regulations relating to alcohol supply and consumption. AMPs vary in design and implementation across Australia, and include strategies designed to reduce harms resulting from alcohol misuse. The majority of AMPs are based on the principle of harm minimisation and include supply, demand and harm reduc...

In this article, the biocatalytic oxidation of ethanol into acetaldehyde was studied using a catalase entrapped within monolithic polyampholyte cryogel, p(APTAC-co-AMPS), as catalyst. When an anionic monomer, 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid sodium salt (AMPS), mixed with cationic (3-acrylamidopropyl) trimethylammonium chloride (APTAC), under cryo-polymerization conditions at molar ...

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are small molecular weight proteins with broad spectrum antimicrobial activity against bacteria, viruses, and fungi. These evolutionarily conserved peptides are usually positively charged and have both a hydrophobic and hydrophilic side that enables the molecule to be soluble in aqueous environments yet also enter lipid-rich membranes. Once in a target microbial me...

Emerging trends towards performance-asymmetric multicore processors (AMPs) are posing new challenges, because for effective utilization of AMPs, code sections of a program must be assigned to cores such that the resource needs of the code sections closely match the resources available at the assigned core. Computing this assignment can be difficult especially in the presence of unknown or many ...

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are potent drug candidates against microbial organisms such as bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses. AMPs have abundant sequences and structures, two fundamental resources for bioinformatics researches, but analyses on how they associate with each other are either nonexistent or limited to partial classification and data. We thus present A Database of Anti-Micro...

Autonomous mobile programs (AMPs) offer a novel decentralised load management technology where periodic use is made of cost models to decide where to execute in a network. In this paper we demonstrate how sequential programs can be automatically converted into AMPs. The AMPs are generated by an automatic continuation cost analyser that replaces iterations with Costed Autonomous Mobility Skeleto...

Bacteria and viruses may enter our bodies through mucous membranes of the airways or gut. To prevent infections, one defense mechanism immune system is antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Most AMPs are composed 10–50 amino acids insert into bacterial cell to destroy cell. Some also active against fungi. can be generated by chopping up bigger proteins like hemoglobin. The hemoglobin fragments inactiv...

Natural Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are important components of immune systems and possess immuno-modulatory and broad spectrum antimicrobial activities. These host-defense peptides failed to resist protease degradation or to efficiently inhibit biofilm formation. We describe in this review the different strategies to improve AMPs and develop peptides that could be used clinically and in indu...

We propose an innovative method for localized wavefront correction based on area-mapped phase-shift (AMPS) interferometry. In this Letter, we present the theory and then experimentally compare it with a previously demonstrated method based on spot-optimized phase-stepping (SOPS) interferometry. We found that AMPS outperforms SOPS interferometry in terms of speed by threefold, although in noisy ...