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  1. Agar and broth dilution methods to determine the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antimicrobial substances (2008)
    Irith Wiegand, Kai Hilpert et al. Nature Protocols
  2. Antimicrobial and host-defense peptides as new anti-infective therapeutic strategies (2006)
    Robert E. W. Hancock, Hans‐Georg Sahl Nature Biotechnology
  3. Peptide Antimicrobial Agents (2006)
    Håvard Jenssen, Pamela Hamill et al. Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  4. Designing antimicrobial peptides: form follows function (2011)
    Christopher D. Fjell, Jan A. Hiss et al. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  5. NetworkAnalyst 3.0: a visual analytics platform for comprehensive gene expression profiling and meta-analysis (2019)
    Guangyan Zhou, Othman Soufan et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  6. Cationic peptides: a new source of antibiotics (1998)
    Robert E. W. Hancock, Robert I. Lehrer Trends in biotechnology
  7. Peptide Antibiotics (1999)
    Robert E. W. Hancock, Daniel S. Chapple Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  8. The role of cationic antimicrobial peptides in innate host defences (2000)
    Robert E. W. Hancock, Gill Diamond Trends in Microbiology
  9. Peptide antibiotics (1997)
    Robert E. W. Hancock The Lancet
  10. Pseudomonas aeruginosa: new insights into pathogenesis and host defenses (2013)
    Shaan L. Gellatly, Robert E. W. Hancock Pathogens and Disease
  11. Pseudomonas aeruginosa: all roads lead to resistance (2011)
    Elena B. M. Breidenstein, César de la Fuente‐Núñez et al. Trends in Microbiology
  12. InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond—recent updates and continuing curation (2012)
    Karin Breuer, Amir Foroushani et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  13. The role of antimicrobial peptides in animal defenses (2000)
    Robert E. W. Hancock, Monisha G. Scott Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  14. Cationic peptides: effectors in innate immunity and novel antimicrobials (2001)
    Robert E. W. Hancock The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  15. The value of antimicrobial peptides in the age of resistance (2020)
    Maria Magana, Pushpanathan Muthuirulan et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  16. The relationship between peptide structure and antibacterial activity (2003)
    Jon-Paul S. Powers, Robert E. W. Hancock Peptides
  17. The immunology of host defence peptides: beyond antimicrobial activity (2016)
    Robert E. W. Hancock, Evan F. Haney et al. Nature reviews. Immunology
  18. NetworkAnalyst for statistical, visual and network-based meta-analysis of gene expression data (2015)
    Jianguo Xia, Erin E. Gill et al. Nature Protocols
  19. Cationic host defense (antimicrobial) peptides (2005)
    Kelly L. Brown, Robert E. W. Hancock Current Opinion in Immunology
  20. Mechanism of Interaction of Different Classes of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides with Planar Bilayers and with the Cytoplasmic Membrane ofEscherichia coli (1999)
    Manhong Wu, Elke Maier et al. Biochemistry
  21. Bacterial biofilm development as a multicellular adaptation: antibiotic resistance and new therapeutic strategies (2013)
    César de la Fuente‐Núñez, Fany Reffuveille et al. Current Opinion in Microbiology
  22. Adaptive and Mutational Resistance: Role of Porins and Efflux Pumps in Drug Resistance (2012)
    Lucía Fernández, Robert E. W. Hancock Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  23. The Human Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 Is a Multifunctional Modulator of Innate Immune Responses (2002)
    Monisha G. Scott, Donald J. Davidson et al. The Journal of Immunology
  24. Procedure for isolation of bacterial lipopolysaccharides from both smooth and rough Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonella typhimurium strains (1983)
    Robert E. W. Hancock et al. Journal of Bacteriology
  25. Human Host Defense Peptide LL-37 Prevents Bacterial Biofilm Formation (2008)
    Joerg Overhage, Andrea Campisano et al. Infection and Immunity
  26. Rational Design of α-Helical Antimicrobial Peptides with Enhanced Activities and Specificity/Therapeutic Index (2005)
    Yuxin Chen, Colin T. Mant et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry
  27. Pseudomonas Genome Database: improved comparative analysis and population genomics capability for Pseudomonas genomes (2010)
    Geoffrey L. Winsor, Daniel Lam et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  28. Multifunctional cationic host defence peptides and their clinical applications (2011)
    Amy Yeung, Shaan L. Gellatly et al. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  29. Immune modulation by multifaceted cationic host defense (antimicrobial) peptides (2013)
    Ashley L. Hilchie, Kelli Wuerth et al. Nature Chemical Biology
  30. ALTERATIONS IN OUTER MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY (1984)
    Robert E. W. Hancock Annual Review of Microbiology
  31. Modulating immunity as a therapy for bacterial infections (2012)
    Robert E. W. Hancock, Anastasia Nijnik et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology
  32. Use of the fluorescent probe 1-N-phenylnaphthylamine to study the interactions of aminoglycoside antibiotics with the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (1984)
    Chris W.M. Grant, Robert E. W. Hancock et al. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  33. Broad-Spectrum Anti-biofilm Peptide That Targets a Cellular Stress Response (2014)
    César de la Fuente‐Núñez, Fany Reffuveille et al. PLoS Pathogens
  34. Host defense peptides: front-line immunomodulators (2014)
    Sarah Mansour, Olga M. Pena et al. Trends in Immunology
  35. Reassessing the Host Defense Peptide Landscape (2019)
    Evan F. Haney, Suzana K. Straus et al. Frontiers in Chemistry
  36. Antibiofilm activity of host defence peptides: complexity provides opportunities (2021)
    Robert E. W. Hancock, Morgan A. Alford et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology
  37. Antibiotic failure: Beyond antimicrobial resistance (2023)
    César de la Fuente‐Núñez, Angela Cesaro et al. Drug Resistance Updates
  38. Antimicrobial resistance: a concise update (2024)
    Charlotte Shan Ho, Thet Tun Aung et al. The Lancet Microbe

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Hiroshi Nikaido 19037 2953 1596 279 42.2k
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