Table of Contents:
  • Immunomodulatory cationic peptide therapeutics : a new paradigm in infection and immunity
  • Structure/function link between cytokine domains and natural and designed lytic peptides : medical promise
  • The potential of frog skin antimicrobial peptides for development into therapeutically valuable anti-infective agents
  • Obstacles and solutions to the use of cationic antimicrobial peptides in the treatment of cancer
  • Lytic peptides as anti-cancer therapeutics : lessons learned from a novel design approach
  • Strategies for designing peptide immunogens to elicit : helical conformation-specific antibodies reactive with native proteins
  • Defensins in viral infection
  • "GENOPEP," a topical cream in the treatment of burn wounds
  • Developing influenza antigen microarrays for seroprofiling
  • pH-directed self-assembling helical peptide conformation
  • Controlling symbiotic microbes with antimicrobial peptides
  • Antimicrobial peptides for plant disease control : from discovery to application
  • Antimicrobial peptides as a promising alternative for plant disease protection
  • Strategies for controlling plant diseases and mycotoxin contamination using antimicrobial synthetic peptides
  • Antifungal plant defensins : structure-activity relationships, modes of action, and biotech applications
  • Antifungal peptides : exploiting non-lytic mechanisms and cell penetration properties
  • Thionin antifungal peptide synthesis in transgenic barley
  • Expression of designed anti-microbial peptides in theobroma cacao L. trees reduces leaf necrosis caused by phytophthora spp
  • Antimicrobial peptides for fire blight control
  • Thionins : nature's weapons of mass protection
  • Transgenic expression of antimicrobial peptides in plants : strategies for enhanced disease resistance, improved productivity, and production of therapeutics.