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Mussel-Inspired Clickable Antibacterial Peptide Coating on Ureteral Stents for Encrustation Prevention.

Abstract
Long-term indwelling catheters or stents often cause complications like infection, encrustation, hematuria, pain, and so on. The source of these problems is bacteria, which can form biofilms on the stents to reduce antibiotic sensitivity and produce urease to form encrustation by increasing the urine pH. Urinary tract infection (UTI) can aggravate the body damage and even seriously endanger lives, and the encrustation will block the stents, which can cause hydronephrosis and renal function damage. Therefore, the prevention of UTI and encrustation represents a great challenge in clinical ureteral stent uses. In this work, a clickable mussel-inspired peptide and antimicrobial peptide (AMP) were used to functionalize the commercial stents' surfaces to inhibit long-term infection and encrustation caused by bacteria. Copper (Cu) ions were used to coordinate the mussel-inspired peptide to improve the stability. The AMP with an azido group was clicked to the mussel-inspired Cu-coordinated peptide coating through click chemistry. The bio-inspired antibacterial coating was constructed with excellent stability, bactericidal properties, and improved biological compatibility. In in vitro and in vivo experiments, it was further found that the coating showed bactericidal and encrustation reduction abilities. This study thus developed an effective, safe, and stable AMP coating on urinary stents/catheters capable of long-term antibacterial and encrustation inhibition.
AuthorsQin Yao, Jinyi Zhang, Guoqing Pan, Binghai Chen
JournalACS applied materials & interfaces (ACS Appl Mater Interfaces) Vol. 14 Issue 32 Pg. 36473-36486 (Aug 17 2022) ISSN: 1944-8252 [Electronic] United States
PMID35917447 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Peptides
Topics
  • Humans
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents (pharmacology)
  • Bacteria
  • Peptides (pharmacology)
  • Stents (microbiology)
  • Ureter
  • Urinary Tract Infections

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