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BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 9, Issue 23, Pages 7996-8006Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1bm01233a
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- Ohio Research Scholars Program Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials
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Polyethylene glycol-coated gamma-alumina nanoparticles show strong antibacterial activity, especially against drug-resistant bacteria, without causing resistance development.
Although a biologically nonessential element in living organisms, aluminum is notably nontoxic to eukaryotic cells and has a venerable history of medicinal use. We demonstrate that polyethylene glycol-coated gamma-alumina nanoparticles (Al2O3-NPs) with an average size of 15 nm prepared from a commercial bulk gamma-alumina (gamma-Al2O3) via the top-down sonication technique exhibit antibacterial activity that is comparable to that of AgNPs against both the Gram-negative drug-susceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa (DSPA) and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (DRPA) bacteria, while the antibacterial activity of such Al2O3-NPs considerably surpasses that of AgNPs against both the Gram-positive methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (DSSA) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria. We also demonstrate that the DSPA bacteria sequentially exposed to Al2O3-NPs for 30 days show no indication of resistance development. Furthermore, such Al2O3-NPs can completely overcome the drug resistance developed in the conventional antibiotic ciprofloxacin-resistant and AgNP-resistant mutants without developing Al resistance.
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