Author:
Hathout Rania M.,Abdelhamid Sherihan G.,El-Housseiny Ghadir S.,Metwally Abdelkader A.
Abstract
AbstractBio/chemoinformatics tools can be deployed to compare antimicrobial agents aiming to select an efficient nose-to-brain formulation targeting the meningitis disease by utilizing the differences in the main structural, topological and electronic descriptors of the drugs. Cefotaxime and ceftriaxone were compared at the formulation level (by comparing the loading in gelatin and tripalmitin matrices as bases for the formation of nanoparticulate systems), at the biopharmaceutical level (through the interaction with mucin and the P-gp efflux pumps) and at the therapeutic level (through studying the interaction with S. pneumoniae bacterial receptors). GROMACS v4.6.5 software package was used to carry-out all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. Higher affinity of ceftriaxone was observed compared to cefotaxime on the investigated biopharmaceutical and therapeutic macromolecules. Both drugs showed successful docking on mucin, P-gp efflux pump and S. pneumoniae PBP1a and 2b; but ceftriaxone showed higher affinity to the P-gp efflux pump proteins and higher docking on mucin. Ceftriaxone showed less out-of-matrix diffusion and higher entrapment on the gelatin and the tripalmitin matrices. Accordingly, Ceftriaxone gelatin nanospheres or tripalmitin solid lipid nanoparticles may pose a more feasible and efficient nose-to-brain formulation targeting the meningitis disease compared to the cefotaxime counterparts.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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