The production and engineering of antimicrobial peptides and their application in the coating of urinary catheters

• Main Author: Li, Xiang
• Other Authors: Leong Su Jan, Susanna
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/54643
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a promising class of molecules that can curb microbial infections without easily evoking microbial resistance. To employ AMPs as coating agents for biomedical materials and devices, obstacles which include (i) the lack of pure AMPs for detailed structure-function ch...