Antibacterial and hemolytic activities of quaternary pyridinium functionalized polynorbornenes
Antibacterial and hemolytic activities of quaternary pyridinium functionalized polynorbornenes
复制标题
DOI:
10.1002/macp.200700418
复制
发表时间:
2008-03-05
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Tew, Gregory N.
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Eren, Tarik;Som, Abhigyan;Tew, Gregory N.
In this study, amphiphilic polyoxanorbornene with different quaternary alkyl pyridinium side chains were synthesized. The biological efficiencies of these polymers, with various alkyl substituents, were determined by bacterial growth inhibition assays and hemolytic activity (HC(50)) against human red blood cells (RBCs) to provide selectivity of these polymers for bacterial over mammalian cells. A series of polymers with different alkyl substituents (ethyl, butyl, hexyl, octyl, decyl and phenylethyl) and two different molecular weights (3 and 10 kDa) were prepared. The impact of alkyl chain length divided the biological activity into two different cases: those with an alkyl substituent containing four or fewer carbons had a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 200 mu g . mL(-1) and a HC(50) greater than 1650 mu g . mL(-1), while those with six or more carbons had lower MICs