Xiao Jiang, Song Zhongquan, Lai Xiangdong, Zhang Xiangyang, Liu Xiaohui, Jiang Hui, Li Minjie, Wang Xuemei
State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China.
Furong Laboratory, Changsha, 410208, Hunan, China.
Mater Today Bio. 2025 Jul 1;33:102040. doi: 10.1016/j.mtbio.2025.102040. eCollection 2025 Aug.
Drug-resistant bacterial infections and excessive inflammation pose serious challenges to wound healing. Currently, biomaterial-assisted antibacterial therapies demonstrate excellent therapeutic potential by enriching antibacterial agents at the site of infection and combining the advantages of multiple therapeutic agents. Here, inspired by bacterial aggregation behaviors in living organisms that regulate host physiological activities, a biomimetic polypeptide-based hybrid bacterial cluster is reported for treatment of infected wounds (PTS-UGT). Specifically, hybrid bacteria (UGT) were first constructed by a method of stepwise biological self-assembly with Staphylococcus epidermidis (SE) bacterial surface growth of gold and silver particles (UG) and polyphenolization of gold and silver particles. Subsequently, under the inducement of borate-diphenol coordination interactions and multiple hydrogen bonding, UGT was assembled with the side-chain boronic-acid-modified antibacterial polypeptide tobramycin (PTS) to form biomimetic hybrid bacterial clusters (PTS-UGT) by tailoring the conjugation methods. These clusters integrate the multiplexing and aggregation enhancement functions of bio-self-assembled gold, silver, polyphenol particles, bacterial immunomodulatory components and antibacterial polypeptides, which can effectively regulate the polarization of macrophages to M2 type and enhance the local effective drug concentration for multifunctional bacterial killing, thereby showing excellent antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and healing effects on infected wounds in mice, providing new ideas for the development of biomaterial-assisted antibacterial therapy.
耐药细菌感染和过度炎症对伤口愈合构成严峻挑战。目前,生物材料辅助抗菌疗法通过在感染部位富集抗菌剂并结合多种治疗剂的优势,展现出卓越的治疗潜力。在此,受调节宿主生理活动的生物体内细菌聚集行为启发,报道了一种用于治疗感染伤口的基于仿生多肽的混合细菌簇(PTS-UGT)。具体而言,首先通过逐步生物自组装的方法构建混合细菌(UGT),即让表皮葡萄球菌(SE)在细菌表面生长金银颗粒(UG)并使金银颗粒多酚化。随后,在硼酸 - 二酚配位相互作用和多重氢键的诱导下,通过调整共轭方法,将UGT与侧链硼酸修饰的抗菌多肽妥布霉素(PTS)组装形成仿生混合细菌簇(PTS-UGT)。这些簇整合了生物自组装的金、银、多酚颗粒、细菌免疫调节成分和抗菌多肽的多重作用及聚集增强功能,可有效将巨噬细胞极化调节为M2型,并提高局部有效药物浓度以实现多功能杀菌,从而对小鼠感染伤口显示出优异的抗菌、抗炎和愈合效果,为生物材料辅助抗菌治疗的发展提供了新思路。