Polymer-Based Surfaces Designed to Reduce Biofilm Formation : From Antimicrobial Polymers to Strategies for Long-Term Applications

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Contact-active antimicrobial polymer surfaces bear cationic charges and kill or deactivate bacteria by interaction with the negatively charged parts of their cell envelope (lipopolysaccharides, peptidoglycan, and membrane lipids). The exact mechanism of this interaction is still under debate. While cationic antimicrobial polymer surfaces can be very useful for short-term applications, they lose their activity once they are contaminated by a sufficiently thick layer of adhering biomolecules or bacterial cell debris. This layer shields incoming bacteria from the antimicrobially active cationic surface moieties. Besides discussing antimicrobial surfaces, this feature article focuses on recent strategies that were developed to overcome the contamination problem. This includes bifunctional materials with simultaneously presented antimicrobial and protein-repellent moieties; polymer surfaces that can be switched from an antimicrobial, cell-attractive to a cell-repellent state; polymer surfaces that can be regenerated by enzyme action; degradable antimicrobial polymers; and antimicrobial polymer surfaces with removable top layers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38

Enthalten in:

Macromolecular rapid communications - 38(2017), 20 vom: 01. Okt.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Riga, Esther K [VerfasserIn]
Vöhringer, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Widyaya, Vania Tanda [VerfasserIn]
Lienkamp, Karen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-Infective Agents
Antimicrobial polymers
Bioactive polymers
Coatings
Journal Article
Polymer surfaces
Polymers
Review
Structure-property relationships

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Date Completed 13.07.2018

Date Revised 12.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/marc.201700216

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM275193748