Scorpion venom as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): A review article

Abstract

The high level of reported multidrug resistant pathogens with the failure of most conventional antibiotic to kill many of them arise the global concern in the last decade to find alternatives urgently. Many researches have been conducted on scorpion venom biological characteristics, and its different antimicrobial peptides had been reported in literature since the last decade. Here short overview of all scorpion AMPs with antibacterial activity, their structural determinants, classification types and their mode of action, in addition to their resistance mechanism and finally their therapeutics potential.