Electro‐biocompatibility of conjugates designed by chemical similarity

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Titel: Electro‐biocompatibility of conjugates designed by chemical similarity

Beteiligte: Maione, Silvana; Fabregat, Georgina; Del Valle, Luis J.; Ballano, Gema; Cativiela, Carlos; Alemán, Carlos

Erschienen: Wiley, 2014

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1002/psc.2660

ISSN: 1099-1387; 1075-2617

Schlagwörter: Organic Chemistry ; Drug Discovery ; Pharmacology ; Molecular Biology ; Molecular Medicine ; General Medicine ; Biochemistry ; Structural Biology

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Beschreibung: The roughness and thickness of films formed by hybrid conjugates prepared by coupling poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene) and synthetic amino acids bearing a 3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene group in the side chain have been significantly increased using a new synthetic approach. This procedure also provoked a more effective incorporation of the amino acid at the end of the polymer chains, as has been reflected by the electronic and electrochemical properties. Although the surface polarity of all these materials is similar to that of formamide, the hydrophilicity of the conjugates is higher than that of the conducting polymer. The surface energy of all the investigated systems is dominated by the dispersive component, even though the role played by the polar contribution is more important for the conjugates than for the conducting polymer. On the other hand, all the prepared materials behave as bioactive matrices. The electrochemical response of the conjugates coated with cells reflects the electro‐compatibility of these two‐component substrates. Thus, the ability to exchange charge reversibly of all conjugates increases considerably when they are coated with cellular monolayers, which has attributed to favorable interactions at the interface formed by the conjugate surface and the cellular monolayer. Copyright © 2014 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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