Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy is an attractive and novel therapeutic approach to treat microbial infections. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have the potential specifically target kill microorganism while showing no effect toward mammalian cells. In current study, peptide (GGG(RW)3), analogue of MP-196, was conjugated a zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) photosensitizer (PS) for photoinactivati...

Photobactericidal hairy nanocrystalline cellulose was developed as a bioinspired nanofiller for engineering self-disinfecting food packaging. A new version of nanocellulose functionalized with high density primary amine group called aminated (ANCC) synthesized. As natural photosensitizer, rose bengal (RB) then covalently linked to ANCC via an aqueous-based bioconjugation reaction, confirmed by ...