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Development of direct contact-killing non-leaching antimicrobial polyurethanes through click chemistry
A robust, efficient, and orthogonal click chemistry (copper (I)-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition) was used to prepare an antimicrobial polymer and precisely control the conjugation ratio of antibiotic molecules to polymer. Antimicrobial polyurethanes with pendant benzisothiazolinone (PU-BIT) wer...
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Published in: | JCT research 2018-11, Vol.15 (6), p.1239-1250 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | A robust, efficient, and orthogonal click chemistry (copper (I)-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition) was used to prepare an antimicrobial polymer and precisely control the conjugation ratio of antibiotic molecules to polymer. Antimicrobial polyurethanes with pendant benzisothiazolinone (PU-BIT) were synthesized using click chemistry to connect azide functional polyurethane (PU-N
3
) and alkyne functional benzisothiazolinone (BIT-Al). The direct contact-killing and non-leaching antimicrobial properties of PU-BIT were verified by both antimicrobial drop and disk diffusion. This approach provides a new methodology and platform for the development of contact-killing and non-leaching antimicrobial materials for a variety of practical applications. This research is the first to demonstrate that the broad-spectrum BIT antibiotic is a selective antibiotic for Gram-positive bacteria when covalently linked to a polymer. PU-BIT film containing 0.8 wt% BIT exhibited a selective antimicrobial performance with bactericidal efficacy of 91.6% and 30% against Gram-positive
Staphylococcus aureus
and Gram-negative
Escherichia coli
, respectively. The mechanism of the selective antimicrobial activity of PU-BIT is also discussed. |
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ISSN: | 1547-0091 1935-3804 2168-8028 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11998-018-0068-1 |