Methylene Blue Doped Films of Wool Keratin with Antimicrobial Photodynamic Activity

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• 作者：Annalisa Aluigi ; Giovanna Sotgiu ; Armida Torreggiani ; Andrea Guerrini ; Viviana T. Orlandi ; Franco Corticelli ; Greta Varchi
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 12, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：7
• 期：31
• 页码：17416-17424
• 全文大小：459K
• ISSN：1944-8252

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In this work, keratin films doped with different amounts of methylene blue (MB) were developed in order to prepare new biodegradable and biocompatible materials for tissue engineering and wound healing, able to exert antimicrobial photodynamic activity upon irradiation with visible light. Preliminary results indicated that the swelling ratio, as well as the MB release, increases by increasing the pH. Moreover, the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and singlet oxygen can be easily triggered and controlled by a fine-tuning of the irradiation time and MB concentration in the films. As concerns the photodynamic effects on keratin, the ROS attack does not induce any significant photodegradation on the protein, even if a slight photo-oxidation of sulfonated amino acids occurs. Finally, the film with the highest MB concentration (400 渭g per gram of keratin) displays a significant photobactericidal activity against Staphylococcus aureus with a bacterial reduction that increases by increasing the irradiation time. In particular, the irradiation of KFMB400 film incubated with S. aureus at a concentration of 10⁸ cfu mL^鈥? determined the 99.9% killing rate and the killing effect increased proportionally with irradiation time.