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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Pharm. 2011 Dec 13;9(3):342–354. doi: 10.1021/mp2005033

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Proposed mechanism of action of cationic dendrimers via initial electrostatic attraction to the negatively charged bacterium followed by membrane and peptidoglycan disruption. Structures not drawn to scale.