Fresh from the oven, is a paper from our long-term collaboration with Università di Catania and Salvo Sortino‘s team about Cyclodextrin Branched Polymer Nanocarriers.
Encapsulation of the NO photodonor within biocompatible neutral, cationic, and anionic β-cyclodextrin branched polymers as suitable carriers leads to supramolecular nanoassemblies, which exhibit the same nature of the photochemical processes but NO photorelease performances enhanced by about 1 order of magnitude when compared with the free guest.
Antibacterial tests carried out with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii demonstrate an effective antibacterial activity exclusively under light activation and point out a differentiated role of the polymeric nanocarriers in determining the outcome of the antibacterial photodynamic action.
Stepwise Nitric Oxide Release and Antibacterial Activity of a Nitric Oxide Photodonor Hosted within Cyclodextrin Branched Polymer Nanocarriers | ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Hopefully, our CSO Milo Malanga will continue to promote such flourishing collaborations.
