Yes / Bacterial quorum sensing has been implicated in a number of pathogenic bacterial processes, such as biofilm formation, making it a crucial target for developing materials with a novel antibiotic mode of action. This paper describes poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) that has been covalently linked, at multiple chain ends, to homoserine lactone to give a highly branched polymer functionalized with a key messenger molecule implicated in QS. This novel functional material has shown promising anti-QS activity in a Chromobacterium violaceum assay.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17253 |
| Date | 06 September 2019 |
| Creators | Shepherd, J., Swift, Thomas, Chang, Chien-Yi, Boyne, J.R., Rimmer, Stephen, Martin, William H.C. |
| Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | (c) 2019 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. |
Page generated in 0.0022 seconds