Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 26, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules26195821
Keywords
reductive amination of oxidized alginate derivative; systematic characterization; molecular structure; self-assembly behavior; hydrophobic drug delivery
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province [220MS035, 219QN209]
- Key Research and Development Project of Hainan Province [Hgb202008]
- Innovation and Scientific Research Projects for Graduates of College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal University [ZDYF2019018]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51963009]
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The oxidation-reductive amination reaction was performed to synthesize the reductive amination of oxidized alginate derivative (RAOA), which exhibited good amphiphilic properties and low cytotoxicity, making it a promising candidate for drug delivery in the biomedical field.
On account of the rigid structure of alginate chains, the oxidation-reductive amination reaction was performed to synthesize the reductive amination of oxidized alginate derivative (RAOA) that was systematically characterized for the development of pharmaceutical formulations. The molecular structure and self-assembly behavior of the resultant RAOA was evaluated by an FT-IR spectrometer, a H-1 NMR spectrometer, X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), a fluorescence spectrophotometer, rheology, a transmission electron microscope (TEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS). In addition, the loading and in vitro release of ibuprofen for the RAOA microcapsules prepared by the high-speed shearing method, and the cytotoxicity of the RAOA microcapsules against the murine macrophage RAW264.7 cell were also studied. The experimental results indicated that the hydrophobic octylamine was successfully grafted onto the alginate backbone through the oxidation-reductive amination reaction, which destroyed the intramolecular hydrogen bond of the raw sodium alginate (SA), thereby enhancing its molecular flexibility to achieve the self-assembly performance of RAOA. Consequently, the synthesized RAOA displayed good amphiphilic properties with a critical aggregation concentration (CAC) of 0.43 g/L in NaCl solution, which was significantly lower than that of SA, and formed regular self-assembled micelles with an average hydrodynamic diameter of 277 nm (PDI = 0.19) and a zeta potential of about -69.8 mV. Meanwhile, the drug-loaded RAOA microcapsules had a relatively high encapsulation efficiency (EE) of 87.6 % and good sustained-release properties in comparison to the drug-loaded SA aggregates, indicating the good affinity of RAOA to hydrophobic ibuprofen. The swelling and degradation of RAOA microcapsules and the diffusion of the loaded drug jointly controlled the release rate of ibuprofen. Moreover, it also displayed low cytotoxicity against the RAW264.7 cell, similar to the SA aggregates. In view of the excellent advantages of RAOA, it is expected to become the ideal candidate for hydrophobic drug delivery in the biomedical field.
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