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Antimicrobial Characterization of Advanced Materials for Bioengineering Applications

Antimicrobial Characterization of Advanced Materials for Bioengineering Applications

Published on: August 4, 2018

Single Amino-Acid Based Self-Assembled Biomaterials with Potent Antimicrobial Activity.

Souvik Misra¹, Soumyajit Mukherjee², Anamika Ghosh¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, P.O.- Botanic Garden, Howrah, 711103, India.

Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)

|September 1, 2021

Summary

Amino acid modifications create novel injectable biomaterials. These new soft biomaterials demonstrate antimicrobial properties and are biocompatible, showing potential for biomedical applications.

Keywords:

amino acid antimicrobial biomaterial hydrogel thixotropy

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Area of Science:

Biomaterials Science
Supramolecular Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry

Background:

Soft biomaterials derived from amino acids and peptides are crucial for biomedical applications.
Amino acid side-chain modifications significantly influence peptide/protein structure and function.
Fmoc-Phe-OH is a model gelator, and the role of phenylalanine's aromaticity and flexibility in gelation is explored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the necessity of aromaticity and flexibility in phenylalanine for hydrogel formation.
To synthesize and characterize novel Fmoc-derivatives of unnatural amino acids.
To evaluate the antimicrobial activity and biocompatibility of the synthesized compounds.

Main Methods:

Synthesis of Fmoc-derivatives of cyclohexylalanine, phenylglycine, and homophenylalanine.
Hydrogel formation studies in phosphate buffer at pH 7.0.
Antimicrobial activity assessment via inhibition of cellular oxygen consumption.
Biocompatibility evaluation using a hemolysis assay on human blood cells.

Main Results:

All three synthesized unnatural amino acid derivatives successfully formed hydrogels with varying efficacy and kinetics.
Aromatic side-chain and flexibility are not essential for gelation of this model system.
The novel derivatives exhibited significant antimicrobial activity against gram-positive bacteria.
Hemolysis assays confirmed the biocompatibility of the developed amino acid derivatives.

Conclusions:

The study demonstrates that slight modifications in amino acid side-chains can yield effective injectable biomaterials.
Injectable soft biomaterials with enhanced antimicrobial properties can be developed without mandatory aromaticity or flexibility in the amino acid residue.
These findings open avenues for designing new single amino acid-based biomaterials for therapeutic applications.