Pallvi Slathia¹ and Deepti Narang²*

¹Department of Veterinary Microbiology College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Punjab, India
²Principal Scientist-Cum-Head, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Punjab, India

*Corresponding Author: Deepti Narang, Principal Scientist-Cum-Head, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Punjab, India.

Received: June 01, 2021; Published: July 14, 2021

Introduction

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most serious challenges to global health, so researchers are looking for new ways to fight it. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are one among the widely researched alternatives to standard antibiotics [3]. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also known as host defense peptides, are short, naturally occurring, typically 12-50 amino acid residues long, possess a net charge (due to an abundance of Arg and Lys residues) and have a considerable proportion of hydrophobic residues (usually 50%) which allows them to fold into amphipathic conformations. They’re found in a vast variety of life forms (microorganisms to humans), display remarkable structural and functional diversity and have broad spectrum of targeted organisms [1].

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Citation

Citation: Pallvi Slathia and Deepti Narang. “Antimicrobial Peptides as Potential Alternative to Antibiotics". Acta Scientific Veterinary Sciences 3.8 (2021): 15-17.

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