Preface
1. Immunomodulatory Cationic Peptide Therapeutics: A New Paradigm in Infection and Immunity
Neeloffer Mookherjee, Leola N. Y. Chow, and Robert E. W. Hancock
2. Structure/Function Link Between Cytokine Domains and Natural and Designed Lytic Peptides: Medical Promise
Jesse M. Jaynes and Gregory C. Bernard
3. The Potential of Frog Skin Antimicrobial Peptides for Development into Therapeutically Valuable Anti-Infective Agents
J. M. Conlon
4. Obstacles and Solutions to the Use of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides in the Treatment of Cancer
Ashley L. Hilchie, Melanie R. Power Coombs, and David W. Hoskin
5. Lytic Peptides as Anticancer Therapeutics: Lessons Learned from a Novel Design Approach
Clayton Yates, Timothy Turner, and Jesse M. Jaynes
6. Strategies for Designing Peptide Immunogens To Elicit ?-Helical Conformation-Specific Antibodies Reactive with Native Proteins
Zhe Yan, Wendy J. Hartsock, Zhaohui Qian, Kathryn V. Holmes, and Robert S. Hodges
7. Defensins in Viral Infection
Rachna Shah and Theresa L. Chang
8. "GENOPEP", a Topical Cream in the Treatment of Burn Wounds
Jesse M. Jaynes and V. Siva Rami Reddy
9. Developing Influenza Antigen Microarrays for Seroprofiling
Yu M. Foong and Mahesh Uttamchandani
10. pH-Directed Self-Assembling Helical Peptide Conformation
J. Vincent Edwards, Alfred D. French, Thomas Jacks, and K. Rajasekaran
11. Controlling Symbiotic Microbes with Antimicrobial Peptides
Peter Mergaert and Eva Kondorosi
12. Antimicrobial Peptides for Plant Disease Control. From Discovery to Application
Emilio Montesinos, Esther Badosa, Jordi Cabrefiga, Marta Planas, Lidia Feliu, and Eduard Bardají
13. Antimicrobial Peptides as a Promising Alternative for Plant Disease Protection
B. López-García, B. San Segundo, and M. Coca
14. Strategies for Controlling Plant Diseases and Mycotoxin Contamination Using Antimicrobial Synthetic Peptides
K. Rajasekaran, J. W. Cary, C. A. Chlan, J. M. Jaynes, and D. Bhatnagar
15. Antifungal Plant Defensins: Structure-Activity Relationships, Modes of Action, and Biotech Applications
Uma Shankar Sagaram, Jagdeep Kaur, and Dilip Shah
16. Antifungal Peptides: Exploiting Non-Lytic Mechanisms and Cell Penetration Properties
Jose F. Marcos, Mónica Gandía, Eleonora Harries, Lourdes Carmona, and Alberto Muñoz
17. Thionin Antifungal Peptide Synthesis in Transgenic Barley
Jianming Fu, Minesh Patel, Anna Maria Nuutila, and Ron Skadsen
18. Expression of Designed Antimicrobial Peptides in Theobroma cacao L. Trees Reduces Leaf Necrosis Caused by Phytophthora spp.
Luis C. Mejía, Mark J. Guiltinan, Zi Shi, Lena Landherr, and Siela N. Maximova
19. Antimicrobial Peptides for Fire Blight Control
V. Sarojini
20. Thionins - Nature's Weapons of Mass Protection
Svetlana Oard, Jong Hyun Ham, and Marc Alan Cohn
21. Transgenic Expression of Antimicrobial Peptides in Plants: Strategies for Enhanced Disease Resistance, Improved Productivity, and Production of Therapeutics
Dmytro P. Yevtushenko and Santosh Misra
Editors' Biographies
Indexes