Growing antibiotic resistance is a major threat to global health, turning infections that were once easy to treat into life-threatening illnesses Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [2019]Ventola . Such rapidly increasing resistance to traditional antibiotic regimens has led to the necessity of finding new and unique treatment methods . One possible recourse is the use of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) , which have been identified within the innate immune systems of a multitude of species, including humans, and act to modulate the proliferation of infectious diseases Schneider et al. . AMPs comprise a candidate class of short proteins, generally no longer than 100 amino acids and often much shorter . Many of them preferentially partition onto prokaryotic (bacterial) over eukaryotic (mammalian) cell membranes and cause bacterial cell death through destabilization of the membrane and expulsion of the intracellular contentsLei et al.