Abstract:Bacterial infections represent a major worldwide health problem, with an special highlight on Gram-negative bacteria, which were assigned by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the most critical priority for development of novel antimicrobial compounds. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been considered as potential alternative agents for treating these infections. Here we demonstrated the broad-spectrum activity of EcDBS1R6, a peptide derived from a signal peptide sequence of Escherichia coli that we previ… Show more
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