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Synergistic and On-Demand Release of Ag-AMPs Loaded on Porous Silicon Nanocarriers for Antibacteria and Wound Healing

Journal

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 13, Issue 14, Pages 16127-16141

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c02161

Keywords

silver nanoparticles; antimicrobial peptides; porous silicon; antibacterial; synergistic; on-demand release

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21275218, 21575127, 21874118]

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The study developed a dual synergistic antibacterial platform based on AgNPs and AMP, showing excellent antibacterial effect with on-demand release ability. PSiMPs as a carrier efficiently loaded AgNPs and AMP, releasing Ag+ and AMP under bacterial infection conditions, promoting wound healing by synergistic antibacterial efficiency.
Due to the abuse of antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance is rapidly emerging and becoming a major global risk for public health. Thus, there is an urgent need for reducing the use of antibiotics, finding novel treatment approaches, and developing controllable release systems. In this work, a dual synergistic antibacterial platform with on-demand release ability based on silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and antimicrobial peptide (AMP) coloaded porous silicon (PSi) was developed. The combination of AgNPs and AMPs (Tet-213, KRWWKWWRRC) exhibited an excellent synergistic antibacterial effect. As a carrier, porous silicon can efficiently load AgNPs and AMP under mild conditions and give the platform an on-demand release ability and a synergistic release effect. The AgNPs and AMP coloaded porous silicon microparticles (AgNPs-AMP@PSiMPs) exhibited an acid pH and reactive oxygen species (ROS)-stimulated release of silver ions (Ag+) and AMPs under bacterial infection conditions because of oxidation and desorption effects. Moreover, the release of the bactericide could be promoted by each other due to the interplay between AgNPs and Tet-213. In vitro antibacterial tests demonstrated that AgNPs-AMP@PSiMPs inherited the intrinsic properties and synergistic antibacterial efficiency of both bactericides. In addition, wound dressing loaded with AgNPs-AMP@PSiMPs showed outstanding in vivo bacteria-killing activity, accelerating wound-healing, and low biotoxicity in a Staphylococcus aureus-infected rat wound model. The present work demonstrated that PSiMPS might be an efficient platform for loading the antibiotic-free bactericide, which could synergistically and on-demand release to fight wound infection and promote wound healing.

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