Advances in Antimicrobial Peptides and Expression Strategy

Antimicrobial peptides are widely distributed in nature, existing in organisms of plants, insects, and vertebrates. It has been approved that antimicrobial peptides have broad spectrum antimicrobial activities, and play a key modulatory role in the innate immune response and tumor inhibiting activity. Due to the special action mechanism, the antimicrobial peptides become a hot field of genetic engineering. In the present paper, the general properties, mechanism of action, application value, existing problems, the latest progress and the expression strategy were discussed.