Combinatorial discovery of polymers resistant to bacterial attachment

Hook, Andrew L., Chang, Chien-Yi, Yang, Jing, Luckett, Jeni, Cockayne, Alan, Atkinson, Steve, Mei, Ying, Bayston, Roger, Irvine, Derek J., Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G., Williams, Paul, Davies, Martyn C. and Alexander, Morgan R. (2012) Combinatorial discovery of polymers resistant to bacterial attachment. Nature Biotechnology, 30 (9). pp. 868-875. ISSN 1546-1696

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Abstract

Bacterial attachment and subsequent biofilm formation are key challenges to the long term performance of many medical devices. Here, a high throughput approach coupled with the analysis of surface structure-property relationships using a chemometics approach has been developed to simultaneously investigate the interaction of bacteria with hundreds of polymeric materials on a microarray format. Using this system, a new group of materials comprising ester and hydrophobic moieties are identified that dramatically reduce the attachment of clinically relevant, pathogenic bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and uropathogenic Escherichia coli). Hit materials coated on silicone catheters resulted in up to a 30 fold reduction in coverage compared to a commercial silver embedded catheter, which has been proven to half the incidence of clinically acquired infection. These polymers represent a new class of materials resistant to bacterial attachment that could not have been predicted from the current understanding of bacteria-surface interactions.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/710965
Keywords: Bacterial Adhesion, Biomedical Materials, Polymer Synthesis
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Life Sciences > School of Molecular Medical Sciences
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Medicine
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Pharmacy
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2316
Depositing User: Hook, Andrew
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2016 11:04
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 16:33
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/32096

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