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BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE
卷 10, 期 3, 页码 834-845出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1bm01620b
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51873213]
- High-Tech Research & Development Program of CAS-WEGO Group
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2021YFC2101700]
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising antimicrobial agents with broad-spectrum activity and unique bactericidal mechanisms. Star-shaped AMPs exhibit stronger bactericidal activity against Gram-negative bacteria, while linear AMPs show similar activity against Gram-positive bacteria. Star-shaped AMPs have faster bactericidal efficiency, and when immobilized on surfaces, they demonstrate comparable antibacterial activity and efficiency, along with favorable biocompatibility.
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are attractive antimicrobial agents used to combat bacterial infections, and have been advanced to be one of the most promising alternatives to conventional antibiotics. They stand out for their attractive broad-spectrum activity, unmatched antibacterial mechanism that is not prone to develop drug resistance and diversified topologies, which can be fabricated with manifold amino acid blocks. In this study, using n-hexylamine and amine-terminated polyamidoamine dendrimers (Gx-PAMAM, x = 1-2) as initiators, a series of AMPs with linear and star-shaped topological structures were constructed via the controllable ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs). The antibacterial performances of the tailored linear and star-shaped AMPs were comprehensively evaluated in both solution states and surface-bonded states. The results indicated that the star-shaped AMPs exhibited enhanced bactericidal activity against Gram-negative E. coli and similar bactericidal activity against Gram-positive S. aureus when compared with the linear AMPs. It is worth mentioning that star-shaped AMPs demonstrated a significantly faster bactericidal efficiency (completely killed bacteria within 5 min at a concentration of 2 x MIC for S. aureus) than their linear analogues (took 15 min to achieve the same effect). However, when the AMPs were immobilized to the surface, they similarly exhibited superior antibacterial activity and fast bactericidal efficiency towards S. aureus and E. coli in the case of the same surface grafting amount. In addition, both the surfaces grafted with AMPs of different topologies demonstrated favorable biocompatibility in vitro.
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