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Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy with Functionalized Fullerenes: Quantitative Structure-activity Relationships.

Kazue Mizuno1, Timur Zhiyentayev, Liyi Huang

  • 1Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology
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Quaternized fullerene derivatives show promise as antimicrobial agents. These compounds, when activated by light, effectively kill bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, with potential for treating superficial infections.

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Area of Science:

  • Biochemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Microbiology

Background:

  • Photodynamic therapy (PDT) utilizes photosensitizers (PS) with light and oxygen to generate reactive oxygen species for cell death.
  • Antimicrobial PDT is an emerging infection treatment using microbial-selective PS.
  • Common antimicrobial PS are based on tetrapyrrole or phenothiazinium structures with cationic or basic amino groups.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the antimicrobial efficacy of novel synthetic fullerene derivatives with basic or quaternary amino groups.
  • To establish quantitative structure-function relationships for these fullerene-based PS.
  • To evaluate their effectiveness against Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus), Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli), and fungi (Candida albicans).

Main Methods:

  • Synthesis of fullerene derivatives with varying amino group substitutions (basic vs. quaternary).
  • Assessment of antimicrobial activity using quantitative structure-function relationships, including LogP and hydrophilic-lipophilic balance.
  • Testing against S. aureus, E. coli, and C. albicans under visible light irradiation.

Main Results:

  • Fullerene derivatives with non-quaternary amino groups formed nanoaggregates and were only effective against S. aureus.
  • Increased numbers of widely dispersed quaternary cationic groups on the fullerene cage enhanced antimicrobial effectiveness by minimizing aggregation.
  • S. aureus showed the highest susceptibility, followed by E. coli, while C. albicans was the most resistant.

Conclusions:

  • Quaternized fullerene derivatives are highly effective antimicrobial photosensitizers.
  • The distribution and number of quaternary cationic groups are critical determinants of efficacy.
  • These findings suggest potential applications for quaternized fullerenes in treating superficial microbial infections.