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Peptide-assembled nanozymes: a promising strategy to combat antimicrobial resistance

Haoyang Du1 ,  Jiaxin Liu1 ,  Manjie Zhang1,2*
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1 Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Pharmacy at the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
2 Key Laboratory of Superlight Materials and Surface Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
BMT 2025 , 6(1), 106–109; https://doi.org/10.12336/biomatertransl.2025.01.009
Submitted: 3 February 2025 | Revised: 9 March 2025 | Accepted: 10 March 2025 | Published: 25 March 2025
© 2025 by the Author(s). Licensee Biomaterials Translational, USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en)
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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22002096), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2023M730827), the Hei Longjiang Postdoctoral Science Foundation (LBH- 223123), and the Harbin Medical University High-level Introduction of Talent Research Start-up Fund (31011210004).
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