Abstract
There is growing interest in the oral delivery of poorly permeable peptide drugs; however, the effect of biorelevant colloids found in the aqueous gastrointestinal environment on peptide drug solution behavior has been largely understudied. In this work, we detail the molecular level interactions between octreotide, a water-soluble macrocyclic peptide drug, and biorelevant colloids, i.e. bile salt micelles and bile salt-phospholipid mixed micelles, via dialysis membrane flux experiments and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectroscopy. A modified alanine scan was employed to generate eight mutated octreotide analogs; the impact of individual amino acid mutations on peptide dialysis membrane flux rates in micellar (trihydroxy and dihydroxy) bile salt solutions as well as fasted state simulated intestinal fluid (FaSSIF) and fed state simulated intestinal fluid (FeSSIF) was evaluated and compared against the parent peptide, octreotide. We show that octreotide interacts more strongly with dihydroxy bile salt micelles than trihydroxy bile salt micelles in solution, and in FaSSIF/FeSSIF media, octreotide mainly interacts with the phospholipid component. These interactions are largely mediated by hydrophobic interactions of octreotide's aromatic residues as well as electrostatic interactions between octreotide's basic Lys residue and terminal amine.
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