Abstract
The dissociation constants (pKms) of the phenothiazine drugs promazine, chlorpromazine, and triflupromazine, incorporated in the phosphatidylcholine (PC) bilayer of small unilamellar vesicles (SUV), were investigated by a 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) titration method employing their N-13CH3 (ionizable group) labelled derivatives. Use of the labelled drugs enabled direct observations of the ionization equilibrium of the N-dimethyl group. A second derivative spectrophotometric study proved that 95–98% of the phenothiazine species in the sample solutions (200 μM phenothiazine in the presence of 27 mM PC SUV) were incorporated into the PC bilayer, which simplified the calculation of pKm values by allowing that the phenothiazines in the aqueous phase could be neglected. The pKm values were calculated from the chemical shift dependence of the N-dimethyl 13C NMR signal on the pH value of sample solutions. The pKm values obtained were smaller than those measured in aqueous solutions by about one unit. The existence of cholesterol (30 mol%) in the PC bilayer showed little effect on the pKm values, suggesting that cholesterol in the bilayer does not largely affect the interfacial region where the N-dimethyl group of the incorporated phenothiazines is located. The results offered clear evidence for the pKm decrease and provided their precise values.
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