Issue 1, 2024

Structure–activity relationship of drug conjugated polymeric materials against uropathogenic bacteria colonization under in vitro and in vivo settings

Abstract

The human world has been plagued with different kinds of bacterial infections from time immemorial. The increased development of resistance towards commercial antibiotics has made these bacterial infections an even more critical challenge. Bacteria have modified their mode of interactions with different types of commercial drugs by bringing changes to the receptor proteins or by other resisting mechanisms like drug efflux. Various chemical approaches have been made to date to fight against these smart adapting species. Towards this, we hypothesize chemically modifying the commercial antibacterial drugs in order to deceive the bacteria and destroy the bacterial biomass. In this study, different molecular weight polyethyleneimines are taken and conjugated with some well-known commercial drugs like penicillin and chloramphenicol to explore their antibacterial properties against some of the laboratory and uro-pathogenic strains of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. A detailed structure–activity relationship of these polymeric prodrug-like materials has been evaluated to determine the optimum formulation. The standardized system not only shows significant ∼90% bacterial killing in liquid broth culture, but also demonstrates promising bacterial inhibition towards biofilm formation for the pathogenic strains on inanimate surfaces like urinary catheters and on an in vivo mouse skin abrasion model. The reported bioactive polymeric materials can be successfully used for widespread therapeutic applications with promising medical relevance.

Graphical abstract: Structure–activity relationship of drug conjugated polymeric materials against uropathogenic bacteria colonization under in vitro and in vivo settings

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Aug 2023
Accepted
21 Nov 2023
First published
21 Nov 2023

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024,12, 187-201

Structure–activity relationship of drug conjugated polymeric materials against uropathogenic bacteria colonization under in vitro and in vivo settings

S. Sarkar, P. Moitra and S. Bhattacharya, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024, 12, 187 DOI: 10.1039/D3TB01841E

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