Dutta, Sounak ; Shome, Anshupriya ; Kar, Tanmoy ; Das, Prasanta Kumar (2011) Counterion-induced modulation in the antimicrobial activity and biocompatibility of amphiphilic hydrogelators: influence of in-situ-synthesized Ag−nanoparticle on the bactericidal property Langmuir, 27 (8). pp. 5000-5008. ISSN 0743-7463
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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la104903z
Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la104903z
Abstract
The necessity for the development of new antimicrobial agents due to the ever increasing threat from microbes is causing a rapid surge in research. In the present work, we have shown the efficient antimicrobial activity of a series of amino acid-based hydrogelating amphiphiles through alteration in their counterion. The subtle variation in the counterion from chloride to various organic carboxylates had a significant impact on the antimicrobial properties with notable improvement in biocompatibility toward mammalian cells. Incorporation of a hydrophobic moiety in the counterion augmented the antibacterial property of the amphiphilic hydrogelator as minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) against the Gram-positive bacterial strain, Bacillus subtilis decreased up to 5-fold (with respect to the chloride) in the case of n-hexanoate. These counterion-varied amphiphilic hydrogelators were also found to be effective against fungal strains (Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae) where they exhibited MICs in the range of 1.0−12.5 μg/mL. To widen the spectrum of antibacterial activity, particularly against Gram-negative bacteria, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized in situ within the supramolecular assemblies of the carboxylate hydrogelators. These AgNP−amphiphile soft-nanocomposites showed bactericidal property against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Encouragingly, these carboxylate hydrogelators showed superior biocompatibility toward mammalian cells, HepG2 and NIH3T3, as compared to the chloride analogue at a concentration range of 10−200 μg/mL. Importantly, the AgNP composites also showed sufficient viability to mammalian cells. Because of the intrinsic hydrogelation ability of these counterion-varied amphiphiles, the resulting soft materials and the nanocomposites could find applications in biomedicine and tissue engineering.
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