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Computer-Aided Discovery of New Solubility-Enhancing Drug Delivery System

Journal

BIOMOLECULES
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom10060913

Keywords

quantitative structure-property relationship; cyclodextrins; cefuroxime axetil

Funding

  1. Ministry of Science and Higher Education [DI2014020544]
  2. NIH [5U54CA198999]
  3. PL-Grid Infrastructure
  4. National Science Center [DEC-2018/28/T/NZ7/00472]

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The poor aqueous solubility of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) places a limit on their therapeutic potential. Cyclodextrins (CDs) have been shown to improve the solubility of APIs, but the magnitude of the improvement depends on the structure of both the CDs and APIs. We have developed quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) models that predict the stability of the complexes formed by a popular poorly soluble antibiotic, cefuroxime axetil (CA) and different CDs. We applied this model to five CA-CD systems not included in the modeling set. Two out of three systems predicted to have poor stability and poor CA solubility, and both CA-CD systems predicted to have high stability and high CA solubility were confirmed experimentally. One of the CDs that significantly improved CA solubility, methyl-beta CD, is described here for the first time, and we propose this CD as a novel promising excipient. Computational approaches and models developed and validated in this study could help accelerate the development of multifunctional CDs-based formulations.

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