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Published on: March 5, 2012
Affinity adsorbents for the vancomycin group of antibiotics
1The State Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials for Adsorption and Separation, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The vancomycin group of antibiotics kill Gram-positive bacteria by binding to nascent bacterial cell-wall peptidoglycan bearing the C-terminal sequence-D-Ala-D-Ala. In this paper, affinity adsorbents for the vancomycin group of antibiotics were prepared by immobilizing the peptidoglycan analogues -D-Ala-D-Ala, -succinyl-D-Ala and -succinyl-Gly on to crosslinked poly(N, N-dimethylacrylamide). The adsorption capacities of the three adsorbents for demethylvancomycin were 0.59, 0.35 and 0.29 mmol/g, respectively. The adsorption capacity of the adsorbent with-D-Ala-D-Ala for vancomycin was 0.53 mmol/g. In contrast, the adsorbent bearing -succinyl-L-Ala hardly adsorbed demethylvancomycin. Aqueous sodium carbonate (0.4 M)/acetonitrile (7/3, v/v) completely desorbed demethylvancomycin adsorbed on the adsorbents.
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