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Porous Silicon Nanoparticle Delivery of Tandem Peptide Anti‐Infectives for the Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung Infections

Overview of attention for article published in Advanced Materials, July 2017
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Title
Porous Silicon Nanoparticle Delivery of Tandem Peptide Anti‐Infectives for the Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung Infections
Published in
Advanced Materials, July 2017
DOI 10.1002/adma.201701527
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Authors

Ester J. Kwon, Matthew Skalak, Alessandro Bertucci, Gary Braun, Francesco Ricci, Erkki Ruoslahti, Michael J. Sailor, Sangeeta N. Bhatia

Abstract

There is an urgent need for new materials to treat bacterial infections. In order to improve antibacterial delivery, an anti-infective nanomaterial is developed that utilizes two strategies for localization: i) a biodegradable nanoparticle carrier to localize therapeutics within the tissue, and ii) a novel tandem peptide cargo to localize payload to bacterial membranes. First, a library of antibacterial peptides is screened that combines a membrane-localizing peptide with a toxic peptide cargo and discovers a tandem peptide that displays synergy between the two domains and is able to kill Pseudomonas aeruginosa at sub-micromolar concentrations. To apply this material to the lung, the tandem peptide is loaded into porous silicon nanoparticles (pSiNPs). Charged peptide payloads are loaded into the pores of the pSiNP at ≈30% mass loading and ≈90% loading efficiency using phosphonate surface chemistry. When delivered to the lungs of mice, this anti-infective nanomaterial exhibits improved safety profiles over free peptides. Moreover, treatment of a lung infection of P. aeruginosa results in a large reduction in bacterial numbers and markedly improves survival compared to untreated mice. Collectively, this study presents the selection of a bifunctional peptide-based anti-infective agent and its delivery via biodegradable nanoparticles for application to an animal model of lung infection.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 126 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 26%
Researcher 18 14%
Student > Bachelor 17 13%
Student > Master 12 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 7%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 30 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 17 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 13%
Materials Science 14 11%
Chemistry 13 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 9 7%
Other 25 20%
Unknown 32 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 114. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 September 2018.
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#305,074
of 22,679,690 outputs
Outputs from Advanced Materials
#228
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Outputs of similar age
#7,450
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Outputs of similar age from Advanced Materials
#7
of 207 outputs
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