Issue 15, 2023

Nanoliposomes protecting antimicrobial peptides via membrane-fused incorporation to fight wound infection

Abstract

Due to the abuse of antibiotics, drug resistance has become an urgent problem in public health and clinical practice. Recently, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been considered as excellent antibacterial agents that are not inclined to induce the drug resistance of bacteria, but they are limited by their easy hydrolysis by enzymes and high cytotoxicity. In this work, we designed a strategy using amphipathic α-helical peptides coupled with antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) to fuse with liposomes to form functional antimicrobial liposomes (FALs) as typical bio-colloids. FALs can overcome the drug resistance of bacteria, improve antibacterial performance and biosafety, and prevent enzymolysis of the AMPs to enhance their stability. In detail, the pancreatic-enzyme-treated AMPs exhibited no antibacterial activity against E. coli and S. aureus due to the hydrolysis of peptide. In contrast, the FALs still maintained excellent antibacterial performance against both E. coli and S. aureus after being treated with pancreatic enzyme, and could be further applied in the treatment of skin wounds infected with S. aureus on mice. Hematoxylin (HE) staining and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) were adopted for histological analysis, proving that the FALs constructed by such a strategy had broad application prospects in both wound disinfection and the promotion of wound healing.

Graphical abstract: Nanoliposomes protecting antimicrobial peptides via membrane-fused incorporation to fight wound infection

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 May 2023
Accepted
30 Jun 2023
First published
03 Jul 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 3303-3309

Nanoliposomes protecting antimicrobial peptides via membrane-fused incorporation to fight wound infection

H. Xue, J. Li, L. Zhang, X. Song, H. Shi, Y. Feng, S. Hou, Z. Wang, T. Zhu and L. Liu, Mater. Adv., 2023, 4, 3303 DOI: 10.1039/D3MA00261F

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