Interaction studies of diacyl glycerol arginine-based surfactants with DPPC and DMPC monolayers, relation with antimicrobial activity
Antimicrobial agents have a major practical importance in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications for preventing contamination. Our group has developed a novel class of cationic diacyl glycerol arginine-based surfactants denoted 1414RAc and 1212RAc. To assess the antimicrobial properties of t...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Colloids and surfaces. A, Physicochemical and engineering aspects Physicochemical and engineering aspects, 2008-04, Vol.319 (1), p.196-203 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Antimicrobial agents have a major practical importance in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications for preventing contamination. Our group has developed a novel class of cationic diacyl glycerol arginine-based surfactants denoted 1414RAc and 1212RAc. To assess the antimicrobial properties of these new surfactants we have studied how they interact with 1,2-dipalmitoyl-
sn-glycero-3-phosphocoline (DPPC) and 1,2-dimiristoyl-
sn-glycero-3-phosphocoline (DMPC) as model membranes, as well with living organisms endowed or not with external barriers, such as gram negative bacteria, the human protozoa
Leishmania and mammalian cell line.
The structure and phase characteristics of mixed monolayers have been assessed through the analysis of static elasticity. The extent of component miscibility of surfactant and phospholipid in mixed monolayers has been studied using the additivity rule and the excess free energy of a mixture as a function of the phospholipid molar fraction for different surface pressure values. In all the mixtures studied, the mixed monolayer is thermodynamically favoured except for the 1212RAc/DMPC case that exhibits positive values of excess free energy.
The interaction with living cells has cytotoxic effects only in eukaryotic cells, by unspecific membrane permeabilization. |
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ISSN: | 0927-7757 1873-4359 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2007.07.015 |