Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 105, Issue -, Pages 385-392Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.07.048
Keywords
Carboxymethyl chitosan; Metallic salts; Toxicity; Biofilm inhibition; Antimicrobial activity
Funding
- State University of Goias (UEG)
- FAPEG
- CAPES
- CNPq
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Investigation of the antimicrobial action of carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCh) is among the alternative approaches in the control of pathogenic microorganisms. This study aimed to screen the toxicity using the brine shrimp lethality assay and to investigate the inhibitory activity of carboxymethyl in isolation or in combination with silver nitrate, copper sulfate and zinc sulfate on biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538, Staphylococcus epidermidis ATCC 12228, Kocuria rhizophila ATCC 9341, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027, Escherichia coli ATCC 25312, and Burkholderia cepacia ATCC 17759. The CMCh was obtained by reacting chitosan with monochloroacetic acid under alkaline conditions, and the occurrence of carboxymethylation was evidenced by FTIR and H-1 NMR spectroscopy. The CMCh was combined with metallic salts (AgNO3, CuSO4 center dot 5H(2)O and ZnSO4) to perform the bioassays to screen the toxicity, to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration and the impact of sub-inhibitory concentrations against biofilm formation. Although CMCh did not show inhibitory activity againg bacterial growth, it had an interesting level of inhibition of bacterial biofilm. The results suggest that sub-inhibitory concentrations of compounds were effective against biofilm formation. (c) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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