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Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry

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ISSN (Print): 1570-193X
ISSN (Online): 1875-6298

Purification and Characterization of Venom Components as Source for Antibiotics

Author(s): Leidy Johana Vargas Munoz and Sebastian Estrada-Gomez

Volume 11, Issue 1, 2014

Page: [15 - 27] Pages: 13

DOI: 10.2174/1570193X1101140402100416

Price: $65

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.

Keywords: Antimicrobial activity, snake, spider, scorpion, venom, peptides.


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