1H NMR study of the interaction of trans-resveratrol with soybean phosphatidylcholine liposomes

Resveratrol (RSV) is a well-known natural derivative with a wide range of biological and pharmacological activities. Despite of these demonstrated properties, it exhibits low both aqueous solubility and chemical stability and therefore low bioavailability. Consequently, the major concern of the technological research is to exploit delivery systems able to overcome bioavailability problems. In the recent past liposomes have been successfully studied for these purposes. In this paper, 1H-NMR spectroscopy, Nuclear Overhauser Spectroscopy (NOESY) as well as Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancements (PRE) experiments have been carried out to quantitatively investigate the incorporation of resveratrol, at both the liposome preparation stage and by preformed liposomes, also with the aim to characterize resveratrol- soybean phosphatidylcholine (P90G) lipid bilayer interactions. Overall results of 1H NMR spectroscopy analysis suggest that RSV is located nearby the phosphocholine headgroups and also provide quantitative data on the incorporation of RSV (5% w/w), which corresponds to a 150-fold increase with respect to the solubility of RSV in water. Beside, considering that the same level of RSV incorporation was obtained via spontaneous uptake by preformed P90G liposomes, it can be concluded that RSV easily diffuses through the lipid bilayer

Mesoporous matrices for the delivery of the broad spectrum bacteriocin, Nisin A

peer-reviewedMesoporous matrices of different pore size and chemical composition were explored as potential delivery matrices for the broad spectrum bacteriocin, nisin A. The adsorption of nisin A onto two mesoporous silicates (MPS - SBA-15, MCM-41) and two periodic mesoporous organosilanes (PMO - MSE, PMO-PA) was examined. It was found that hydrophobic interactions dominated in the adsorption of this peptide to the matrices, lending the highest adsorption to MCM-41 with a small pore size of 2.8 nm. The hydrophobic ethylene-bridged MSE (6 nm pore) improved the loading and protection of nisin A from degradation by a non-specific protease pepsin, over un-functionalised SBA-15 which had a slightly larger pore size and less hydrophobic moieties. Nisin A did not adsorb onto an amine-functionalised PMO. Upon suspension in modified fasted state simulated gastric fluid (pH 1.6), the highest release of nisin A was observed from MCM-41, with a lower release from SBA-15 and MSE, with release following Higuchi release kinetics. No release was detected into modified fasted state simulated intestinal fluid (pH 6.5) but despite this, the suspended matrices loaded with nisin A remained active against Staphylococcus aureus

NMR Study of the Reversible Trapping of SF6 by Cucurbit[6]uril in Aqueous Solution

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On the Fluxional Behavior of Dess-Martin Periodinane: A DFT and (17)O NMR Study

The structure and dynamics of the Dess-Martin periodinane, a I(V) iodobenzene compound widely used in organic synthesis as a mild oxidant, were studied by a combined (17)O NMR and DFT calculations approach. The results show that a degenerate [1,3] sigmatropic shift of iodine between the two oxygen atoms of each of the three acetoxy groups occurs in solution. The energy barrier of this process depends on the position of the acetoxy group with respect to the iodoxolone ring and is much lower than the energy barrier observed for similar I(III) compounds

Modification of the polarity of an anthocyanin pigment: Structure determination and antioxidant activity

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New method for the estimation of interaction energies in Lennard-Jones pure liquids and solutions

A new theoretical model is proposed for the estimation of interaction energies in pure liquids as well as in dilute binary solutions, with particular emphasis on the London and Pauli contributions to the interaction energy. Basically, interaction energies are calculated as the sum of pair interactions between two molecules, with the average over all pair interactions being effected with the aid of a simplified pair distribution function. The method is tested on a large ensemble of pure liquids and dilute organic solutions. It is shown that this model, called PISA (pair interaction structureless approximation), is very efficient for liquids and solutions in which the intermolecular interactions are dominated by the London-Pauli contribution.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe