Squarylated Lactones Inhibitors for Bacterial Biofilm Formation
申请人:Luk Yan-Yeung
公开号:US20140039195A1
公开(公告)日:2014-02-06
A library of unnatural squarylated homoserine lactones (SHLs) and squarylated lactones that bear potential to modulate biofilm formation in Gram negative bacteria. At low concentrations (˜200 μM), these small molecules inhibit biofilm formation of
E. coli
. Moreover, these compounds are not toxic up to 300 μM and do not significantly attenuate
E. coli
growth. The SHLs have potential to disperse established biofilm and demonstrate an enhanced reduction (˜50%) of the maximum biofilm thickness by use of SHLs during biofilm growth.