Abstract：
:Synthetic and natural mucoadhesive biomaterials in optimized galenical formulations are potentially useful for the transmucosal delivery of active ingredients to improve their localized and prolonged effects. Chitosans (CS) have potent mucoadhesive characteristics, but the exact mechanisms underpinning such interactions at the molecular level and the role of the specific structural properties of CS remain elusive. In the present study we used a combination of microviscosimetry, zeta potential analysis, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and fluorescence quenching to confirm that the soluble fraction of porcine stomach mucin interacts with CS in water or 0.1 M NaCl (at c < c*; relative viscosity, η(rel), ∼ 2.0 at pH 4.5 and 37 °C) via a heterotypic stoichiometric process significantly influenced by the degree of CS acetylation (DA). We propose that CS-mucin interactions are driven predominantly by electrostatic binding, supported by other forces (e.g., hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic association) and that the DA influences the overall conformation of CS and thus the nature of the resulting complexes. Although the conditions used in this model system are simpler than the typical in vivo environment, the resulting knowledge will enable the rational design of CS-based nanostructured materials for specific transmucosal drug delivery (e.g., for Helicobacter pylori stomach therapy).
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Biomacromoleculesjournal_title
Biomacromoleculesauthors
Menchicchi B,Fuenzalida JP,Bobbili KB,Hensel A,Swamy MJ,Goycoolea FMdoi
10.1021/bm5007954subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-10-13 00:00:00pages
3550-8issue
10eissn
1525-7797issn
1526-4602journal_volume
15pub_type
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