Designer broad-spectrum polyimidazolium antibiotics

• Main Authors: Zhong, Wenbin, Shi, Zhenyu, Mahadevegowda, Surendra H., Liu, Bo, Zhang, Kaixi, Koh, Chong Hui, Ruan, Lin, Chen, Yahua, Zeden, Merve S., Pee, Carmen J. E., Marimuthu, Kalisvar, De, Partha Pratim, Ng, Oon Tek, Zhu, Yabin, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Hammond, Paula T., Yang, Liang, Gan, Yunn-Hwen, Pethe, Kevin, Greenberg, E. Peter, Gründling, Angelika, Chan-Park, Mary B.
• 其他作者: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2021
• 主題: Engineering::Chemical engineering::Polymers and polymer manufacture; Cationic Antimicrobial Polymers; Bactericidal
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154101
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

For a myriad of different reasons most antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have failed to reach clinical application. Different AMPs have different shortcomings including but not limited to toxicity issues, potency, limited spectrum of activity, or reduced activity in situ. We synthesized several cationic...