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Submicellar complexes may initiate the fungicidal effects of cationic amphiphilic compounds on Candida albicans.

Abstract：

:The killing of Candida albicans by a series of amphiphilic quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) with different hydrocarbon chain lengths was closely related to the binding of the compounds to the cells and damage of the cell membranes. The membrane damage was measured as the level of release of the UV-absorbing material into the medium in which the cells were suspended and as the level of uptake of propidium iodide in individual cells by flow cytometry. It was shown that of the compounds tested, hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide [CTAB]) bound most efficiently. Tetradecyl betainate chloride (B14), tetradecanoylcholine bromide (C14), tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide (TTAB), and dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB) followed and had declining degrees of binding efficiency. The proportion of CTAB bound was almost total at concentrations up to the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of the compound, whereas that of B14 was somewhat smaller. For the two remaining tetradecyl compounds (C14 and TTAB), still smaller proportions were bound at low concentrations, but the proportions rose disproportionally at increasing concentrations to a distinct maximum at concentrations of 0.2 to 0.5 times the CMC. We propose that interfacial micelle-like aggregates are formed at the cell surface as a step in the binding process. An analogous, but less conspicuous, maximum was seen for DTAB. Thus, great differences in the binding affinity of QACs with different hydrocarbon chains at different concentrations to C. albicans were observed. These differences were related to the CMC of the compound. In contrast, the binding of TTAB to Salmonella typhimurium 395 MS was almost total at low as well as high concentrations until saturation was attained, indicating fundamental differences between binding to the yeast and binding to gram-negative bacteria. The importance of lipid-type complexes or aggregates to the antifungal effect of membrane-active substances are discussed.

journal_name

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

journal_title

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors

Ahlström B,Chelminska-Bertilsson M,Thompson RA,Edebo L

doi

10.1128/AAC.41.3.544

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-03-01 00:00:00

pages

544-50

issue

eissn

0066-4804

issn

1098-6596

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Submicellar complexes may initiate the fungicidal effects of cationic amphiphilic compounds on Candida albicans.