Antimicrobial Activity of Calixarenes and Related Macrocycles

Dmitriy  Shurpik; Pavel Padnya; Ivan Stoikov; Peter Cragg

doi:10.3390/molecules25215145

Antimicrobial Activity of Calixarenes and Related Macrocycles

Dmitriy Shurpik, Pavel Padnya, Ivan Stoikov, Peter Cragg

Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Devices

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Abstract

Calixarenes and related macrocycles have been shown to have antimicrobial effects since the 1950s. This review highlights the antimicrobial properties of almost 200 calixarenes, resorcinarenes, and pillararenes acting as prodrugs, drug delivery agents, and inhibitors of biofilm formation. A particularly important development in recent years has been the use of macrocycles with substituents terminating in sugars as biofilm inhibitors through their interactions with lectins. Although many examples exist where calixarenes encapsulate, or incorporate, antimicrobial drugs, one of the main factors to emerge is the ability of functionalized macrocycles to engage in multivalent interactions with proteins, and thus inhibit cellular aggregation.

Original language	English
Article number	5145
Number of pages	32
Journal	Molecules
Volume	25
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25215145
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2020

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- Centre for Lifelong Health
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