César de la Fuente‐Núñez

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• Discovery of novel antimicrobials within microbiomes

  Current Opinion in Microbiology · 2026-06-24

• Deep learning reveals antimicrobial peptides within prions

  Nature Microbiology · 2026-06-19

• Colorimetric biosensors for pathogen detection toward accessible and scalable diagnostics

  Cell Reports Physical Science · 2026-05-01

• Local structural constraints and charge distribution in the protegrin-1 arginine loop govern activity against colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.

  Drug Resistance Updates · 2026-04-17

• Integrated kidney and urine proteomics define encrypted antimicrobial peptides as effectors of host defence in human pyelonephritis

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026-04-14

• Design of a multimodal synthetic peptide antibiotic derived from human cathelicidin

  Cell Biomaterials · 2026-04-01

• Artificial intelligence in antibiotic discovery: Applications, challenges, and future outlook

  Cell Biomaterials · 2026-04-01 · 1 citations

• Exploring and expanding the chemical multiverse of peptides

  Chemical Science · 2025-12-17 · 4 citations

• Discovery of Encrypted Peptides in a Human Matrix Metallopeptidase

  JACS Au · 2025-12-10

• Molecular response to the non-lytic peptide bac7 (1–35) triggers disruption of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilm

  PLoS Pathogens · 2025-12-01 · 2 citations

• ApexGen: Simultaneous design of peptide binder sequence and structure for target proteins.

  PubMed · 2025-11-18

• Hyperbolic Graph Embeddings Reveal the Host-Pathogen Interactome.

  PubMed · 2025-11-18

• Microbial Primer: Artificial intelligence for microbiologists

  Microbiology · 2025-11-13 · 2 citations

• The gut’s hidden arsenal: A genomics-guided atlas of class II bacteriocins

  Cell Genomics · 2025-11-01 · 2 citations

• Deep learning speeds the search for new antibiotic scaffolds

  Nature Biotechnology · 2025-10-24 · 1 citations

• Tailored structured peptide design with a key-cutting machine approach

  Nature Machine Intelligence · 2025-10-21 · 4 citations

• Integrative machine learning predicts activating kinase mutations for precision oncologyPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-10-15

• Atom-level backbone engineering preserves peptide function while enhancing stabilityPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-10-08 · 2 citations

• Small but mighty: emerging roles of uORFs in plants

  Trends in biotechnology · 2025-10-03 · 3 citations

• PepCompass: Navigating peptide embedding spaces using Riemannian GeometryPreprint

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025-10-02