Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medicine, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China.
Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Feb 27;21(5):1635. doi: 10.3390/ijms21051635.
The recent emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria requires the development of new antibiotics or new agents capable of enhancing antibiotic activity. Lysozyme degrades bacterial cell wall without involving antibiotic resistance and has become a new antibacterial strategy. However, direct use of native, active proteins in clinical settings is not practical as it is fragile under various conditions. In this study, lysozyme was integrated into chitosan nanoparticles (CS-NPs) by the ionic gelation technique to obtain lysozyme immobilized chitosan nanoparticles (Lys-CS-NPs) and then characterized by dynamic light scattering (DLS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which showed a small particle size (243.1 ± 2.1 nm) and positive zeta potential (22.8 ± 0.2 mV). The immobilization significantly enhanced the thermal stability and reusability of lysozyme. In addition, compared with free lysozyme, Lys-CS-NPs exhibited superb antibacterial properties according to the results of killing kinetics in vitro and measurement of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of CS-NPs and Lys-CS-NPs against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa), Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae), Escherichia coli (E. coli), and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). These results suggest that the integration of lysozyme into CS-NPs will create opportunities for the further potential applications of lysozyme as an anti-bacterium agent.
最近出现的抗生素耐药菌需要开发新的抗生素或能够增强抗生素活性的新制剂。溶菌酶在不涉及抗生素耐药性的情况下降解细菌细胞壁,已成为一种新的抗菌策略。然而,由于在各种条件下都很脆弱,直接在临床环境中使用天然、有活性的蛋白质并不实际。在这项研究中,溶菌酶通过离子凝胶技术整合到壳聚糖纳米粒子(CS-NPs)中,得到固定化溶菌酶壳聚糖纳米粒子(Lys-CS-NPs),并通过动态光散射(DLS)和透射电子显微镜(TEM)进行了表征,结果显示其粒径较小(243.1±2.1nm),且zeta 电位为正值(22.8±0.2mV)。固定化显著提高了溶菌酶的热稳定性和可重复使用性。此外,与游离溶菌酶相比,Lys-CS-NPs 具有出色的抗菌性能,根据体外杀菌动力学以及 CS-NPs 和 Lys-CS-NPs 对铜绿假单胞菌(P. aeruginosa)、肺炎克雷伯菌(K. pneumoniae)、大肠杆菌(E. coli)和金黄色葡萄球菌(S. aureus)的最小抑菌浓度(MIC)的测量结果均显示出这一特性。这些结果表明,将溶菌酶整合到 CS-NPs 中将为溶菌酶作为抗菌剂的进一步潜在应用创造机会。
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