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Original Research Articles                      Volume : 9, Issue:6, June, 2020

PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706
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Publisher : Excellent Publishers
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Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash
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Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2020.9(6): 2313-2319
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2020.906.283


Anti-microbial Peptides: New Weapon against Bacteria
Viraj Kaul, Shubhangi Warke and Uma Tumlam*
Department of Veterinary Microbiology & Animal Biotechnology T & RC, Nagpur Veterinary College, Nagpur, India
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also known as host defense peptides, are short and generally positively charged peptides found in a wide variety of life forms from microorganisms to humans. Most AMPs have the ability to kill microbial pathogens directly, whereas others act indirectly by modulating the host defense systems. Against a background of rapidly increasing resistance development to conventional antibiotics all over the world, efforts to bring AMPs into clinical use are accelerating.


Keywords: Anti-microbial Peptides, Host defense systems, Pathogens

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Viraj Kaul , Shubhangi Warke and Uma Tumlam. 2020. Anti-microbial Peptides: New Weapon against Bacteria.Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 9(6): 2313-2319. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2020.906.283
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