CORRECTION article

Front. Microbiol., 30 November 2021

Sec. Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy

Volume 12 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.815909

Corrigendum: Fine-Tuning of Alkaline Residues on the Hydrophilic Face Provides a Non-toxic Cationic α-Helical Antimicrobial Peptide Against Antibiotic-Resistant ESKAPE Pathogens

  • XL

    Xudong Luo 1,2

  • XY

    Xiangdong Ye 1,2

  • LD

    Li Ding 1,3

  • WZ

    Wen Zhu 1

  • PY

    Pengcheng Yi 1

  • ZZ

    Zhiwen Zhao 1

  • HG

    Huanhuan Gao 1

  • ZS

    Zhan Shu 1

  • SL

    Shan Li 1

  • MS

    Ming Sang 4

  • JW

    Jue Wang 1

  • WZ

    Weihua Zhong 5

  • ZC

    Zongyun Chen 1,2*

  • 1. Institute of Biomedicine and Hubei Key Laboratory of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, College of Basic Medicine, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

  • 2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Wudang Local Chinese Medicine Research, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

  • 3. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Dongfeng Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

  • 4. Central Laboratory of Xiangyang No. 1 People's Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

  • 5. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

In the original article, the Figure 6A, which shows the survival curves of infected mice after treatment with BmKn2-7K, was placed mistakenly using the same image as Figure 5C, due to a mistake made inadvertently in the preparation of the revised manuscript. The corrected Figure 6 appears below.

Figure 6

The authors apologize for the error and state that the correction has not changed the description, interpretation, or the original conclusion of the manuscript. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords

ESKAPE pathogens, antibiotic resistance, cationic α-helical antimicrobial peptide, hydrophilic face, lysine vs arginine, hemolytic activity, in vivo efficacy

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Luo X, Ye X, Ding L, Zhu W, Yi P, Zhao Z, Gao H, Shu Z, Li S, Sang M, Wang J, Zhong W and Chen Z (2021) Corrigendum: Fine-Tuning of Alkaline Residues on the Hydrophilic Face Provides a Non-toxic Cationic α-Helical Antimicrobial Peptide Against Antibiotic-Resistant ESKAPE Pathogens. Front. Microbiol. 12:815909. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.815909

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16 November 2021

Accepted

17 November 2021

Published

30 November 2021

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Frontiers Editorial Office, Frontiers Media SA, Switzerland

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12 - 2021

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*Correspondence: Zongyun Chen

This article was submitted to Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology

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