2013
Light-Switchable Polymer from Cationic to Zwitterionic Form: Synthesis, Characterization, and Interactions with DNA and Bacterial Cells
SOBOLČIAK, Patrik; Mário ŠPÍREK; Jaroslav KATRLÍK; Peter GEMEINER; Igor LACÍK et. al.Basic information
Original name
Light-Switchable Polymer from Cationic to Zwitterionic Form: Synthesis, Characterization, and Interactions with DNA and Bacterial Cells
Authors
SOBOLČIAK, Patrik (703 Slovakia); Mário ŠPÍREK (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution); Jaroslav KATRLÍK (703 Slovakia); Peter GEMEINER (703 Slovakia); Igor LACÍK (703 Slovakia) and Peter KASÁK (703 Slovakia)
Edition
MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS, 2013, 1022-1336
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Field of Study
10404 Polymer science
Country of publisher
Germany
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor
Impact factor: 4.608
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14110/13:00072702
Organization unit
Faculty of Medicine
UT WoS
000318029800003
Keywords in English
antibacterial; carboxybetaine ester; dsDNA polyplex; photochemistry; water-soluble polymers
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 20/3/2014 13:57, Ing. Mgr. Věra Pospíšilíková
Abstract
In the original language
A novel cationic polymer poly(N,N-dimethyl-N-[3-(methacroylamino) propyl]-N-[2-[(2-nitrophenyl)methoxy]-2-oxo-ethyl]ammonium chloride) is synthesized by free-radical polymerization of N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl] methacrylamide and subsequent quaternization with o-nitrobenzyl 2-chloroacetate. The photolabile o-nitrobenzyl carboxymethyl pendant moiety is transformed to the zwitterionic carboxybetaine form upon the irradiation at 365 nm. This feature is used to condense and, upon the light irradiation, to release double-strand DNA tested by gel electrophoresis and surface plasmon resonance experiments as well as to switch the antibacterial activity to non-toxic character demonstrated for Escherichia coli bacterial cells in solution and at the surface using the self-assembled monolayers.