期刊
MOLECULES
卷 23, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules23020341
关键词
quorum quenching; antibiotics; organophosphate; enzyme attachment; enzyme delivery
资金
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) [HDTRA1-13-0037]
- Lockheed Martin
This work sets out to provide a self-assembled biopolymer capsule activated with a multi-functional enzyme for localized delivery. This enzyme, SsoPox, which is a lactonase and phosphotriesterase, provides a means of interrupting bacterial communication pathways that have been shown to mediate pathogenicity. Here we demonstrate the capability to express, purify and attach SsoPox to the natural biopolymer chitosan, preserving its activity to neutralize long-chain autoinducer-1 (AI-1) communication molecules. Attachment is shown via non-specific binding and by engineering tyrosine and glutamine affinity 'tags' at the C-terminus for covalent linkage. Subsequent degradation of AI-1, in this case N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone (OdDHL), serves to quench bacterial quorum sensing (QS), silencing intraspecies communication. By attaching enzymes to pH-responsive chitosan that, in turn, can be assembled into various forms, we demonstrate device-based flexibility for enzyme delivery. Specifically, we have assembled quorum-quenching capsules consisting of an alginate inner core and an enzyme decorated chitosan shell that are shown to preclude bacterial QS crosstalk, minimizing QS mediated behaviors.
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