Chemical Communications 2013-01-07

Polymer nanoreactors shown to produce and release antibiotics locally.

Karolina Langowska, Cornelia G Palivan, Wolfgang Meier

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 49(2) , 128-30, (2013)

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Abstract

We designed and prepared nanoreactors based on a poly(2-methyloxazoline)-block-poly(dimethylsiloxane)-block-poly(2-methyloxazoline (PMOXA-b-PDMS-b-PMOXA) amphiphilic triblock copolymer encapsulating the enzyme penicillin acylase for local and controlled production of antibiotics.