ElShaer, Amr, Hanson, Peter, Worthington, Tony, Lambert, Peter and Mohammed, Afzal R. (2012). Preparation and characterisation of amino acids based trimethoprim salts. Pharmaceutics, 4 (1), pp. 179-196.
Abstract
Trimethoprim (TMP) is a dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) inhibitor which prevents the conversion of dihydrofolic acid into tetrahydrofolic acid, resulting in the depletion of the latter and leading to bacterial death. Oral bioavailability of TMP is hindered by both its low solubility and low permeability. This study aims to prepare novel salts of TMP using anionic amino acids; aspartic and glutamic acid as counter ions in order to improve solubility and dissolution. TMP salts were prepared by lyophilisation and characterized using FT-IR spectroscopy, proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1HNMR), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Both the amino acids formed salts with TMP in a 1:1 molar ratio and showed a 280 fold improvement in solubility. Investigation of the microbiological activity of the prepared salts against TMP sensitive Escherichia coli showed that the new salts not only retained antibacterial activity but also exhibited higher zone of inhibition which was attributed to improved physicochemical characters such as higher solubility and dissolution. The results are an important finding that could potentially impact on faster onset of antibacterial activity and reduced therapeutic dose when administered to patients. Studies are underway investigating the effect of ion-pairing TMP with amino acids on the permeability profile of the drug.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics4010179 |
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Divisions: | College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Pharmacy School College of Health & Life Sciences > Chronic and Communicable Conditions College of Health & Life Sciences College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Biosciences College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Biosciences > Cellular and Molecular Biomedicine |
Additional Information: | © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | trimethoprim,salt formation,fourier transform infrared,1H nuclear magnetic resonance,thermogrametric analysis,Pseudomonas aeruginosa,minimum inhibitory concentration studies,Pharmaceutical Science |
Publication ISSN: | 1999-4923 |
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2024 12:18 |
Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2013 15:18 |
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Published Date: | 2012-02-16 |
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ElShaer, Amr
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