In this work, we report a new approach to integrate antimicrobial and nonfouling properties into a single platform without compromising each other. To achieve this, a zwitterionic hydrogel is conjugated with an antimicrobial agent as a leaving group in a way that maintains the zwitterionic form of the hydrogel before, during and after drug release, preventing bacteria surface adhesion and bulk ...

Antineoplastic drugs are a wide and heterogeneous group of substances that, as universally known, can cause highly severe toxic effects to whoever is exposed. From an occupational safety point view, surface contaminations inside preparation administration units growing issue therefore require the development implementation sensible fast monitoring methods. The unlikelihood unique all-embracing ...

This work aimed at elucidating the influence of zwitterionic hard segments on the structures and properties of shape memory polyurethanes (SMPUs). A series of zwitterionic SMPUs was successfully prepared with N-methyldiethanolamine (MDEA), 1,3-propanesultone (1,3-PS), 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) and polyethylene glycol (PEG6000). The influence of MDEA-PS-based zwitterionic hard segment...

hydrogen bonding of dppe with water that surrounded of membrane, plays an important role in permeability ofmembrane that we were presented this matter with analysis of bond angles and torsion angles before and after ofadded water molecules.interaction with water molecules causes some changes in the geometry of dppe which were explained bythe contribution of zwitterionic form of dppe molecule, a...

Zwitterionic polymers have unique features, such as good compatibility, and show promise in the application of drug delivery. In this study, the zwitterionic copolymers, poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine) with disulfide (PCL-ss-PMPC) or poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine) or without disulfide (PCL-PMPC) and with different bloc...

The cathelicidin derived bovine antimicrobial peptide BMAP27 exhibits an effective microbicidal activity and moderate cytotoxicity towards erythrocytes. Irrespective of its therapeutic and multidimensional potentiality, the structural studies are still elusive. Moreover, the mechanism of BMAP27 mediated pore formation in heterogeneous lipid membrane systems is poorly explored. Here, we studied ...

At physiological conditions, a majority of biomolecules (e.g., amino acids, peptides and proteins) exist predominantly in the zwitterionic form that usually decides the biological functions. However, zwitterionic amino acids are not geometrically stable in gas phase and this seriously hampers the understanding of their structures, properties and biological functions. To this end, one of the rec...