Affinity adsorbents for the vancomycin group of antibiotics
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Published on: March 5, 2012
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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