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The extensive use of antibiotics in medicine, food industry, and agriculture has led to a frequent emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria, which creates an urgent need for new antibiotics. It is now widely recognized that venom proteins could play a promising role against multidrug-resistant bacteria. Different proteins with antibacterial activity have been characterized from the venoms of snakes, spiders and scorpions in the last decade.
This review summarizes the proteins and peptides that have been purified and characterized from different venoms with antibacterial activity.
Keywords: Antimicrobial activity, snake, spider, scorpion, venom, peptides.
Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry
Title:Purification and Characterization of Venom Components as Source for Antibiotics
Volume: 11 Issue: 1
Author(s): Leidy Johana Vargas Munoz and Sebastian Estrada-Gomez
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Keywords: Antimicrobial activity, snake, spider, scorpion, venom, peptides.
Abstract: The extensive use of antibiotics in medicine, food industry, and agriculture has led to a frequent emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria, which creates an urgent need for new antibiotics. It is now widely recognized that venom proteins could play a promising role against multidrug-resistant bacteria. Different proteins with antibacterial activity have been characterized from the venoms of snakes, spiders and scorpions in the last decade.
This review summarizes the proteins and peptides that have been purified and characterized from different venoms with antibacterial activity.
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Johana Vargas Munoz Leidy and Estrada-Gomez Sebastian, Purification and Characterization of Venom Components as Source for Antibiotics, Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry 2014; 11 (1) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1570193X1101140402100416
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1570193X1101140402100416 |
Print ISSN 1570-193X |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1875-6298 |
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