Journal
BIOMACROMOLECULES
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 1716-1723Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bm200082d
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- Conseil Regional du Limousin
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In the present work, we report on the synthesis of cellulose cotton fibers bearing different types of photosensitizers with the aim to prepare new efficient polymeric materials for antimicrobial applications. Anionic, neutral, and cationic amino porphyrins have been covalently grafted on cotton fabric, without previous chemical modification of the cellulosic support, using a 1,3,5-triazine derivative as the linker. The obtained porphyrin-grafted cotton fabrics were characterized by infrared (ATR-FTIR), diffuse reflectance UV-vis (DRUV) spectroscopies, and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) to confirm the triazine linkage. Antimicrobial activity of porphyrin-cellulose materials was tested under visible light irradiation against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. The results showed excellent activity on the Gram-positive bacterium, showing structure-activity relationship, although no photodamage of the Gram-negative microorganism was recorded. A mechanism of bacterial inactivation by photosensitive surfaces is proposed.
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