title: Lipid model membranes for drug interaction study.
abstract: The present work shows a structural study on the process of incorporation of a hydrophobic drug, Ellipticine (ELPT), into lipid model membranes for drug targeting purpose. The ELPT is an alkaloid that showed an anti-proliferation activity against several types of tumor cells and against the HIV1 virus. We used the zwitterionic lipid dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and four different anionic lipids: cardiolipin (CL), dipalmitoyl phosphatidic acid (DPPA), dipalmitoyl phosphatidylglycerol (DPPG) and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylserine (DPPS), both spread on a Langmuir monolayer and deposited on a solid substrate to mimic a model membrane and study the interaction with the drug ELPT. X-ray reflectivity results pointed toward an increase in drug loading efficiency up to 13.5% mol/mol of ELPT into mixed systems DPPC/CL. This increase in loading efficiency was also accompanied by a slight distortion in the stacking of the bilayers less evidenced after optimization of the molar ratio between the co-lipids. Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction measurements revealed an in-plane lattice distortion due to the presence of hydrocarbon chain backbone ordering in pure systems of DPPC doped with ELPT. The same was not observed in mixed membranes with DPPC/CL and DPPC/DPPA.
authors.affiliation: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble Cedex, France. cavalcanti@esrf.fr
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Cavalcanti
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Konovalov
authors.forename: I L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Torriani
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems / Q000379:methods*; D015195:Drug Design; D004611:Ellipticines / Q000737:chemistry*; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008560:Membrane Fluidity; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004611:Ellipticines; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D010743:Phospholipids; C034192:ellipticine