Nonribosomal Peptides from Marine Microbes and Their Antimicrobial and Anticancer Potential

Nonribosomal Peptides from Marine Microbes and Their Antimicrobial and Anticancer Potential

Marine environments are largely unexplored and can be a source of new molecules for the treatment of many diseases such as malaria, cancer, tuberculosis, HIV etc. The Marine environment is one of the untapped bioresource of getting pharmacologically active nonribosomal peptides (NRPs). Bioprospecting of marine microbes have achieved many remarkable milestones in pharmaceutics. Till date, more t...

Plant Antimicrobial Peptides as Potential Anticancer Agents

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are part of the innate immune defense mechanism of many organisms and are promising candidates to treat infections caused by pathogenic bacteria to animals and humans. AMPs also display anticancer activities because of their ability to inactivate a wide range of cancer cells. Cancer remains a cause of high morbidity and mortality worldwide. Therefore, the developme...

Screening of Bioactive peptides from marine microbes

Editorial: Antimicrobial and Anticancer Peptides

1 Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 2 Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 3 Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 4 Center for Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 5 Exper...

Antimicrobial peptides from marine invertebrates.

Marine invertebrates lack an acquired, memory-type immunity based on T-lymphocyte subsets and clonally derived immunoglobulins (72). This differs from the vertebrate immune system, which is characterized by somatic gene rearrangement, clonal selection, and expansion and a discriminative ability that includes lymphocytes, among other factors, which impart specificity and memory (71). Marine inve...