Antimicrobial peptides: a new class of antimalarial drugs?
A range of antimicrobial peptides (AMP) exhibit activity on malaria parasites, Plasmodium spp, in their Girls Balboa Tees blood or mosquito stages, or both.These peptides include a diverse array of both natural and synthetic molecules varying greatly in size, charge, hydrophobicity and secondary structure features.Along with an overview of relevant