Dermaseptins and Magainins: Antimicrobial Peptides from Frogs' Skin—New Sources for a Promising Spermicides Microbicides—A Mini Review

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Peptide</td><td align="center">Anti-STI/HIV activities</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Rabbit -defensin mcp-1/mcp-2</td><td align="center">Herpes simplex virus</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Human-defensin-1, -2 and -3</td><td align="center">HIV</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Human-defensin</td><td align="center"><i>T. pallidum</i></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Rabbit-defensin NP-1</td><td align="center"><i>C. trachomatis</i></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Protegrin</td><td align="center"><i>C. trachomatis</i></td></tr><tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center"><i>N. gonorrhoeae</i></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Cathelicidins</td><td align="center"><i>T. pallidum</i></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Cecropin (D2A21/D4E1)</td><td align="center"><i>C. trachomatis</i></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Mellitin</td><td align="center">HIV</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Polyphemusin</td><td align="center">HIV</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Activity of antimicrobial peptides against sexually transmitted infection causing pathogens [<a href="/journals/bmri/2009/452567/#B14">14</a>].

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Table 2: Dermaseptins and Magainins: Antimicrobial Peptides from Frogs' Skin—New Sources for a Promising Spermicides Microbicides—A Mini Review 