Anchor Dependency for Non-Glycerol Based Cationic Lipofectins: Mixed Bag of Regular and Anomalous Transfection Profiles
摘要:
Although detailed structure activity, physicochemical and biophysical investigations in probing the anchor influence in liposomal gene delivery have been reported for glycerol-based transfection lipids, the corresponding investigation for non-glycerol based simple monocationic transfection lipids have not yet been undertaken. Towards this end, herein, we delineate our structure - activity and physicochemical approach in deciphering the anchor dependency in liposomal gene delivery using fifteen new structural analogues (lipids 1 - 15) of recently reported nonglycerol based monocationic transfection lipids. The C-14 analogues in both series 1 (lipids 1 - 6) and series 2 (lipids 7-15) showed maximum efficiency in transfecting COS-1 and CHO cells. However, the C-12 analogue of the ether series (lipid 3) exhibited a seemingly anomalous behavior compared with its transfection efficient C-10 and C-14 analogues (lipids 2 and 4) in being completely inefficient to transfect both COS-1 and CHO cells. The present structure - activity investigation also convincingly demonstrates that enhancement of transfection efficiencies through incorporation of membrane reorganizing unsaturation elements in the hydrophobic anchor of cationic lipids is not universal but cell dependent. The strength of the interaction of lipids 1 - 15 with DNA was assessed by their ability to exclude ethidium bromide bound to the DNA. Cationic lipids with long hydrophobic tails were found, in general, to be efficient in excluding EtBr from DNA. Gel to liquid crystalline transition temperatures of the lipids was measured by fluorescence anisotropy measurement technique. In general (lipid 2 being an exception), transfection efficient lipids were found to have their mid transition temperatures at or below physiological temperatures (37degreesC).
for the first time for the additive-free oxidative coupling of primary amines to imines. Different substituted benzylamine and heteroaryl methanamine compounds could be transformed into their corresponding imines in good to excellent yields over this catalyst. Meanwhile, it has been demonstrated that this catalyst can also afford the oxidative coupling of various benzylamines with o-phenylenediamine to
Abstract Enhancing the selectivity of imines for the oxidative self-coupling of primary amines was found to be challenging in the heterogeneous catalysis. Three different manganese oxides (M-3, M-4, M-5) were synthesized by controlling the calcination temperature using a simple template-free oxalate route. The prepared manganese oxides were systematically characterized using XRD, N2 sorption, SEM,