题名：Rapidly probing the interaction between sulfamethazine antibiotics and fulvic acids

领域：Environmental Pollutio

来源：ELSEVIER

发表年代：2018年

作者：Juan Xu, Yan-Yun Hu, Xiu-Yan Li, Jie-Jie Chen, Guo-Ping Sheng

Abstract Antibiotics residuals in the environments receive wide concerns due to the high risk of generating antibiotic resistance. Natural organic matters (NOM) existed in the environments are considered to have the capacity of binding with organic contaminants, consequently influencing their speciation and transformation in the natural environments. To assess the migration of antibiotics in the environments, it is crucial to understand the binding mechanisms between NOM and antibiotics, which is still unclear due to the limit of available research methods. In this study, the interaction between fulvic acids (FA), one of the main components of NOM, and sulfamethazine (SMZ) was characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) combined with surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) technology. The parameters related to kinetics and thermodynamics of the interaction were determined, and the possible mechanisms driving the interaction were also proposed. In addition, density functional theory (DFT) was used to predict the binding mode between FA and SMZ to reveal the interaction mechanism. Results indicate that FA can effectively bound with SMZ to form a stable complex with a binding constant at the level of 103 L/mol. The kinetic parameters including association and dissociation constants were 29.4 L/mol/s and 6.64
103 1/s, respectively. Hydrophobic interaction might play significant roles in the binding interaction with ancillary contribution of p-p conjunction arising from the aromatic rings stacking of FA and SMZ.

Keywords Fulvic acids, Kinetics, Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Sulfonamide, Thermodynamics

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