Antimicrobial peptides: Role in human disease and potential as immunotherapies

César de la Fuente-Núñez¹, Osmar N Silva², Timothy K Lu¹+1

• ¹Synthetic Biology Group, MIT Synthetic Biology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; Department of Biological Engineering, and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States; Harvard Biophysics Program, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States; The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States.+2