title: Structural determinants of drug partitioning in n-hexadecane/water system.
abstract: Surrogate phases have been widely used as correlates for modeling transport and partitioning of drugs in biological systems, taking advantage of chemical similarity between the surrogate and the phospholipid bilayer as the elementary unit of biological phases, which is responsible for most of the transport and partitioning. Solvation in strata of the phospholipid bilayer is an important drug characteristic because it affects the rates of absorption and distribution, as well as the interactions with the membrane proteins having the binding sites located inside the bilayer. The bilayer core can be emulated by n-hexadecane (C16), and the headgroup stratum is often considered a hydrophilic phase because of the high water content. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that the C16/water partition coefficients (P) can predict the bilayer locations of drugs and other small molecules better than other surrogate systems. Altogether 514 PC16/W values for nonionizable (458) and completely ionized (56) compounds were collected from the literature or measured, when necessary. With the intent to create a fragment-based prediction system, the PC16/W values were factorized into the fragment solvation parameters (f) and correction factors based on the ClogP fragmentation scheme. A script for the PC16/W prediction using the ClogP output is provided. To further expand the prediction system and reveal solvation differences, the fC16/W values were correlated with their more widely available counterparts for the 1-octanol/water system (O/W) using solvatochromic parameters. The analysis for 50 compounds with known bilayer location shows that the available and predicted PC16/W and PO/W values alone or the PC16/O values representing their ratio do not satisfactorily predict the preference for drug accumulation in bilayer strata. These observations indicate that the headgroups stratum, albeit well hydrated, does not have solvation characteristics similar to water and is also poorly described by the O/W partition characteristics.
authors: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Vermont Campus, Colchester, Vermont 05446, USA.
authors: Senthil
authors: S
authors: Natesan
authors: Zhanbin
authors: Z
authors: Wang
authors: Viera
authors: V
authors: Lukacova
authors: Ming
authors: M
authors: Peng
authors: Rajesh
authors: R
authors: Subramaniam
authors: Sandra
authors: S
authors: Lynch
authors: Stefan
authors: S
authors: Balaz
mesh_terms: D020003:1-Octanol / Q000737:chemistry; D000473:Alkanes / Q000737:chemistry*; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000737:chemistry*; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000473:Alkanes; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D010743:Phospholipids; D014867:Water; C007932:n-hexadecane; D020003:1-Octanol
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