Abstract
Cyclodextrin (CD) is a well known drug carrier and excipient for enhancing aqueous solubility. CDs themselves are anticipated to have low membrane permeability because of relatively high hydrophilicity and molecular weight. CD derivatization with 17-beta estradiol (E2) was explored extensively using a number of different click chemistries and the cell membrane permeability of synthetic CD-E2 conjugate was explored by cell reporter assays and confocal fluorescence microscopy. In simile with reported dendrimer-E2 conjugates, CD-E2 was found to be a stable, extranuclear receptor selective estrogen that penetrated into the cytoplasm.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 809-821 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 15 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Bioconjugate
- Cyclodextrin
- Estrogen
- Membrane
- Nuclear receptor
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Medicine
- Molecular Biology
- Pharmaceutical Science
- Drug Discovery
- Clinical Biochemistry
- Organic Chemistry