Carla F. Sousa

TL;DR: Patagonia's biodiversity has been explored from many points of view, however, skin secretions of native amphibians have not been evaluated for antimicrobial peptide research until now and the first peptides described for amphibians of the Pleurodema genus are described.

TL;DR: Spectroscopic data show that polyphenols interact to higher extent with more polar regions found in buccal, flour of the mouth and gingiva regions than with more hydrophobic regions located in the palate and tongue supporting that lipid microenvironments play a role in oral sensory perception.

TL;DR: The results show selectivity of ocellatin‐PTs to the membranes of microorganisms and the applicability of biophysical methods to clarify the interaction of AMPs with cell membranes.

TL;DR: The findings of this work provide insights that will be helpful to proceed with the study of metal-complexes as alternatives to free fluoroquinolones in resistant infections, avoiding the high-cost and time-consuming processes of discovering and designing new antibiotics.

TL;DR: Similar Kp values for sparfloxacin or its copper-complex were obtained for the absorption and fluorescence quenching methods confirming the usefulness of a multi-technique approach and suggesting that in contrast to other fluoroquinolones hydrophobic diffusion occurs readily for both of these molecules.