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Title: Antimicrobial effect of a novel chitosan derivative and its synergistic effect with antibiotics
Authors: Si, Zhangyong
Hou, Zheng
Vikhe, Yogesh Shankar
Thappeta, Kishore Reddy Venkata
Marimuthu, Kalisvar
De, Partha Pratim
Ng, Oon Tek
Li, Peng
Zhu, Yabin
Pethe, Kevin
Chan-Park, Mary B.
Keywords: Engineering::Chemical engineering::Polymers and polymer manufacture
Issue Date: 2021
Source: Si, Z., Hou, Z., Vikhe, Y. S., Thappeta, K. R. V., Marimuthu, K., De, P. P., Ng, O. T., Li, P., Zhu, Y., Pethe, K. & Chan-Park, M. B. (2021). Antimicrobial effect of a novel chitosan derivative and its synergistic effect with antibiotics. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(2), 3237-3245. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c20881
Project: MOE2013-T3-1-002
MOE2018-T3-1-003
NMRC/MOHIAFCAT2/003/2014
H17/01/a0/ 0M9
A1786a0032
Journal: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 
Abstract: Cationic polymers are promising antibacterial agents since they have a low propensity for bacteria to evolve resistance, but they usually have low biocompatibility due to their hydrophobic moieties. Herein, we report a new biodegradable and biocompatible chitosan-derived cationic antibacterial polymer, 2,6-Diamino Chitosan (2,6-DAC). 2,6-DAC shows excellent broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of 8-32 µg/mL against clinically relevant and multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria including Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii. Further, 2,6-DAC shows an excellent synergistic effect with various clinically relevant antibiotics proved by decreasing the MICs of the antibiotics against MDR A. baumannii and MRSA to <1 µg/mL. In vivo biocompatibility of 2,6-DAC is proved by a dosage of 100 mg/kg compound via the oral administration and 25 mg/kg compound via intraperitoneal injection to mice; 2,6-DAC does not cause any weight loss and any significant change in liver and kidney biomarkers nor the important blood electrolytes. The combinations of 2,6-DAC together with novobiocin and rifampicin show >2.4 log10 reduction of A. baumannii in murine intraperitoneal and lung infection models. The novel chitosan derivative, 2,6-DAC, can be utilized as biocompatible broad-spectrum cationic antimicrobial agent alone or in synergistic combination with various antibiotics.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153841
ISSN: 1944-8244
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c20881
Schools: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering 
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) 
School of Biological Sciences 
Research Centres: Centre for Antimicrobial Bioengineering 
Rights: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c20881.
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