A New Antibacterial N-Halamine Coating Based on Polydopamine

Sustainable and effective reconditioning of SPR gold chips functionalized with molecularly imprinted polynorepinephrine

Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) technology has revolutionized the study of affinity-based biomolecular interactions, offering label-free and real-time analysis capabilities. However, traditional SPR gold chips have been viewed as disposable due to challenges in post-use reconditioning, leading to significant resource wastage and increased costs. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach utilizing polynorepinephrine-based (PNE) Molecularly Imprinted Bio-Polymers (MIBPs) as alternative receptors to conventional antibodies. Self-adhesive MIBPs do not require covalent immobilization. This enables efficient and rapid chip functionalization and post-use removal, facilitating multiple reuses of the plasmon source without compromising analytical performance. We conducted a thorough characterization and data analysis, confirming the robustness and repeatability of a single MIBP-functionalized chip for human IgG detection. 10 cycles of reconditioning and reuse, assayed by 60 kinetic calibrations, were performed. Our findings demonstrate the potential indefinite reuse of SPR chips facilitated by PNE MIBPs, with implications for streamlining test development and routine implementation in SPR biosensing applications. Therefore, they represent a sustainable solution to the longstanding challenge of disposable SPR gold chips also by reducing the reliance on animal-derived Abs for bioanalytic testing. Being also extremely low-cost and green, PNE-based MIBPs minimize the ecological footprint associated with traditional SPR assays. Overall, our work represents a significant advancement towards the development of reusable SPR biosensors. It promises a more sustainable and cost-effective future for biomedical research and diagnostic applications, with application on other transducers and bioanalytical platforms.

Polydopamine-Based Biomaterials in Orthopedic Therapeutics: Properties, Applications, and Future Perspectives

Polydopamine is a versatile and modifiable polymer, known for its excellent biocompatibility and adhesiveness. It can also be engineered into a variety of nanoparticles and biomaterials for drug delivery, functional modification, making it an excellent choice to enhance the prevention and treatment of orthopedic diseases. Currently, the application of polydopamine biomaterials in orthopedic disease prevention and treatment is in its early stages, despite some initial achievements. This article aims to review these applications to encourage further development of polydopamine for orthopedic therapeutic needs. We detail the properties of polydopamine and its biomaterial types, highlighting its superior performance in functional modification on nanoparticles and materials. Additionally, we also explore the challenges and future prospects in developing optimal polydopamine biomaterials for clinical use in orthopedic disease prevention and treatment.

Synergistic antibacterial effect and mechanism between Cu2O nanoparticles and quaternary ammonium salt in moisture-curable acrylic coatings

Combining with various antibacterial mechanisms is the preferred strategy to fabricate coatings with effective antibacterial performance. Herein, Cu2O nanoparticles and dimethyloctadecyl [3-(trimethoxysilyl) propyl] ammonium chloride, a kind of quaternary ammonium salt (QAS), were simultaneously incorporated into a moisture-curable acrylic resin in order to achieve both contact-killing and release-killing abilities for antibacterial coatings. The surface morphology, surface composition and basic properties of the coatings were thoroughly characterized. The antibacterial performance of the coatings was determined by in-vitro bacteriostatic test. Under the constant total mass fraction of antibacterial agents, both Cu2O and QAS content possessed the highest value on the coating surface at Cu2O/QAS mass ratio of 1:1, and correspondingly, the coatings reached sterilizing rate above 99 % against both E. coli and S. loihica, indicating the existence of synergistic effect between Cu2O and QAS. The synergistic antibacterial mechanism of the coatings involved two aspects. Firstly, the combination of contact-killing and release-killing biocides resulted in high bactericidal and antibiofilm activity against different bacteria. Further, the grafting of QAS molecules on the surface of Cu2O particles brought about the spontaneous migration of nanoparticles to the coating surface. The interaction between Cu2O and QAS also inhibited the phase separation of QAS and prolonged the release of Cu2+ at the same time. The coatings, therefore, exhibited stable antibacterial performance at varied service conditions.

Halogenated Antimicrobial Agents to Combat Drug-Resistant Pathogens

Antimicrobial resistance presents us with a potential global crisis as it undermines the abilities of conventional antibiotics to combat pathogenic microbes. The history of antimicrobial agents is replete with examples of scaffolds containing halogens. In this review, we discuss the impacts of halogen atoms in various antibiotic types and antimicrobial scaffolds and their modes of action, structure-activity relationships, and the contributions of halogen atoms in antimicrobial activity and drug resistance. Other halogenated molecules, including carbohydrates, peptides, lipids, and polymeric complexes, are also reviewed, and the effects of halogenated scaffolds on pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and factors affecting antimicrobial and antivirulence activities are presented. Furthermore, the potential of halogenation to circumvent antimicrobial resistance and rejuvenate impotent antibiotics is addressed. This review provides an overview of the significance of halogenation, the abilities of halogens to interact in biomolecular settings and enhance pharmacological properties, and their potential therapeutic usages in preventing a postantibiotic era. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Antimicrobial resistance and the increasing impotence of antibiotics are critical threats to global health. The roles and importance of halogen atoms in antimicrobial drug scaffolds have been established, but comparatively little is known of their pharmacological impacts on drug resistance and antivirulence activities. This review is the first to extensively evaluate the roles of halogen atoms in various antibiotic classes and pharmacological scaffolds and to provide an overview of their ability to overcome antimicrobial resistance.

Recent nanotechnology-based strategies for interfering with the life cycle of bacterial biofilms

Biofilm formation plays an important role in the resistance development in bacteria to conventional antibiotics. Different properties of the bacterial strains within biofilms compared with their planktonic states and the protective effect of extracellular polymeric substances contribute to the insusceptibility of bacterial cells to conventional antimicrobials. Although great effort has been devoted to developing novel antibiotics or synthetic antibacterial compounds, their efficiency is overshadowed by the growth of drug resistance. Developments in nanotechnology have brought various feasible strategies to combat biofilms by interfering with the biofilm life cycle. In this review, recent nanotechnology-based strategies for interfering with the biofilm life cycle according to the requirements of different stages are summarized. Additionally, the importance of strategies that modulate the bacterial biofilm microenvironment is also illustrated with specific examples. Lastly, we discussed the remaining challenges and future perspectives on nanotechnology-based strategies for the treatment of bacterial infection.

Modeling the Impact of Polychloramide Solution Properties on Bacterial Disinfection Kinetics

Anionic water-soluble polychloramide biocides are of interest because, compared to conventional cationic antimicrobial polymers, anionic biocides are less likely to be sequestered or deactivated by contact with non-microbial soil. Although electrostatics can prevent anionic polymers from adsorbing on microbes, water-soluble polychloramides appear to transfer oxidative chlorine during transient contacts between polymer chains and microbe surfaces. The Chick-Watson model of disinfection kinetics has been modified to account for the contributions of polychloramide molecular weight (MW) and the polychloramide configuration in solution estimated from the overlap concentration, C*, below which dilute polymer chains exist as discrete objects in solution. The key assumption in the modeling was that the transfer rate of oxidative chlorine from polychloramide chains to microbe surfaces impacts the disinfection kinetics. Because both C* and MW are measurable, the polymer-modified Chick-Watson (PCW) model has one less unknown parameter than the two-parameter Chick-Watson equation. The PCW model predicts that lower MW polymers are more effective biocides compared with high MW counterparts. Additionally, polymers with more compressed configurations in solution are more effective biocides. Experimental evidence supports these conclusions. Based on the estimated time scale of bacteria/polymer collisions compared with disinfection kinetics, arguments are made that bacteria surfaces must be contracted many times by polychloramide chains to achieve sufficient Cl transfer to deactivate bacteria.

Water-soluble anionic polychloramide biocides based on maleic anhydride copolymers

Our goal was to develop film-forming polymers to extend the antimicrobial lifetimes of cleaned and disinfected surfaces. Antimicrobial polymers were prepared by first reacting poly(ethylene-alt-maleic anhydride) with isopropylamine, partially consuming the anhydride groups, followed by hydrolysis to give water-soluble, highly anionic polyamide PC3. Chlorination with NaOCl gave PC3Cl with oxidative chlorine contents up to 9 wt%. Dried, 5 µm thick, PC3Cl films, gave log 4 reductions in the concentration of Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus exposed to films. A unique feature of the maleic anhydride copolymer platform was the ability to form covalent grafts to surfaces via anhydride reactions. PC3 solution was impregnated into cellulosic filter paper, heated to form ester linkages with cellulose, followed by chlorination with sodium dichloroisocyanurate dihydrate giving grafted PC3Cl. The treated paper (0.3 wt% PC3Cl) gave a log 4 reduction of E. coli concentration in 30 min.

Recent Development of Polydopamine Anti-Bacterial Nanomaterials

Polydopamine (PDA), as a mussel-inspired material, exhibits numerous favorable performance characteristics, such as a simple preparation process, prominent photothermal transfer efficiency, excellent biocompatibility, outstanding drug binding ability, and strong adhesive properties, showing great potential in the biomedical field. The rapid development of this field in the past few years has engendered substantial progress in PDA antibacterial materials. This review presents recent advances in PDA-based antimicrobial materials, including the preparation methods and antibacterial mechanisms of free-standing PDA materials and PDA-based composite materials. Furthermore, the urgent challenges and future research opportunities for PDA antibacterial materials are discussed.

Optimization and Antibacterial Response of N-Halamine Coatings Based on Polydopamine

Due to the ability of microorganisms to first adhere to a material surface and then to lead to the formation of a biofilm, it is essential to develop surfaces that have antimicrobial properties. It is well known that N-halamine coatings allow us to prevent or minimize such phenomena. In the present work, various polydopamine (PDA) coatings containing chloramine functions were studied. In fact, three PDA-based films were formed by the simple immersion of a gold substrate in a dopamine solution, either at pH 8 in the presence or not of polyethyleneimine (PEI), or at pH 5 in the presence of periodate as an oxidant. These films were characterized by polarization modulation reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analyses, and by scanning electron microscopy observations. The chlorination of these PDA films was performed by their immersion in a sodium hypochlorite aqueous solution, in order to immobilize Cl(+I) into the (co)polymers (PDA or PDA–PEI). Finally, antibacterial assays towards the Gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli) and the Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus epidermidis (S. epidermidis) were conducted to compare the bactericidal properties of these three N-halamine coatings. Regardless of the bacteria tested, the PDA coating with the best antibacterial properties is the coating obtained using periodate.

Biomimetic FeCo@PDA nanozyme platform with Fenton catalytic activity as efficient antibacterial agent

The multidrug resistance of bacteria caused by the abuse of traditional antibiotics poses a great threat to public health security, so it is urgent to develop effective antibacterial agents to...

Rapid Biocidal Activity of N-Halamine-Functionalized Polydopamine and Polyethylene Imine Coatings

Microorganisms easily adhere to the surface of substrates and further form biofilms, which present problems in various fields. Therefore, the development of surfaces with antimicrobial adhesion or viability is a promising approach. In this study, we were committed to develop a rapid sterilizing coating. First, polyester fibers were immersed into a mixing solution of dopamine (PDA) and polyethyleneimine (PEI) for forming the co-deposition of PDA and PEI coatings. After this, the co-deposition of PDA and PEI coatings was immersed in a solution of household bleach for chlorination. We found that the nitrogens of PDA and PEI could be chlorinated repeatedly and that the oxidative chlorine content increased with the increasing PEI concentration upon co-deposition. Next, the efficacy of the co-deposition of chlorinated PDA and PEI coatings in eliminating Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli was investigated. We found that the antibacterial ability of the coatings increased with increasing PEI content. In addition, the chlorinated co-deposition coatings had significantly improved antibacterial properties compared to the unchlorinated ones. The chlorinated co-deposition coatings inactivated >99.99% of S. aureus and >99.9% of E. coli after contact of less than 10 min. Therefore, chlorination of a PDA/PEI co-deposition surface is a feasible method for use in antibacterial coatings.

Highly Antibacterial Efficacy of a Cotton Fabric Treated with Piperazinyl Schiff Base

Due to the structure of hierarchical aligned cellulose fibrils, cotton fabric used in clothing possesses excellent moisture and thermal managements. Such structure yet may retain metabolic excrements and sebum secretions discharged from the human skin, which reproduce microorganisms harmful for human health. However, incorporating the antimicrobial coating into the cotton fabric can sufficiently resist the microorganism growth. In this work, a water-soluble antibacterial coating named N-(4-(allyloxy) benzylidene)-2-(piperazin-1-yl) ethanamine (NABPE) was synthesized to produce a rechargeable and fast sterilization cotton fiber fabric (M-cotton/NABPE). M-cotton/NABPE exhibited a high effective antibacterial activity, and the inhibition ratios against Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) were 94 % and 93 %, respectively. Chlorination was performed with sodium hypochlorite solution to form N-Cl bond on the M-cotton/NABPE fabrics, resulting in a high biocidal efficacy of up to 100 % via contact killing for a duration of 5 min. After 25 washing cycles, the antibacterial fabric still maintained an antibacterial rate of 91.95 % and 92.15 % against E. coli and S. aureus, respectively. Furthermore, the fabrics showed integrated properties of excellent UV stability, long-term stability, robust rechargeable biocidal activity (chlorine recharging >5000 ppm) and washing durability. This research provides fundamental insights into the synthesis of the NABPE and prolonged biocidal efficacy of the M-cotton/NABPE, and thereby pave a pathway to incorporate an economic and environmental-friendly antibacterial coating suitable for finishing cotton fabric.