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One such potent factor is the repertoire of Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) that not only directly destroys invading pathogens, but also optimally modulate the immune functions of the body to counter the establishment and spread of infections. The canonical direct antimicrobial functions of these AMPs have been in focus for a long time to design principles for enhanced therapeutics, especially against the multi-drug resistant pathogens. However, in recent times the immunomodulatory functions performed by these peptides at sub-microbicidal concentrations have been a point of major focus in the field of host-directed therapeutics. Such strategies have the added benefit of not having the pathogens develop resistance against the immunomodulatory pathways, since the pathogens exploit these signaling pathways to obtain and survive within the host. Thus, this review summarizes the potent immunomodulatory effect of these AMPs on, specifically, the different host immune cells with the view of providing a platform of information that might help in designing studies to exploit and formulate effective host-directed adjunct therapeutic strategies that would synergies with drug regimens to counter the current diversity of drug-resistant skin opportunistic pathogens.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/antibiotics13050439","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,14]],"date-time":"2024-05-14T06:28:12Z","timestamp":1715668092000},"page":"439","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["AMPs as Host-Directed Immunomodulatory Agents against Skin Infections Caused by Opportunistic Bacterial Pathogens"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Subhasree","family":"Saha","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Life Sciences, NALCO Square, Bhubaneswar 751023, Odisha, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Devashish","family":"Barik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Life Sciences, NALCO Square, Bhubaneswar 751023, Odisha, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Debabrata","family":"Biswas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Life Sciences, NALCO Square, Bhubaneswar 751023, Odisha, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.1038\/s41577-018-0084-5","article-title":"The immunological anatomy of the skin","volume":"19","author":"Kabashima","year":"2019","journal-title":"Nat. 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