Abstract
Licorice is the most widely used crude drug in traditional Chinese medicine. Glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) is the metabolite of glycyrrhizic acid, which is the main bioactive ingredient of licorice. In this work, capillary electrophoresis-frontal analysis (CE-FA) was applied to study the binding of bovine serum albumin with GA and two diuretics: furosemide (FU) and hydrochlorothiazide (HZ). The binding parameters of GA were determined by Scatchard analysis, which showed that there are two kinds of binding sites in bovine serum albumin for GA. However, the results showed that the CE-FA method was not suitable for the interaction study of FU and HZ. Therefore, utracentrifugation-CE was used to probe the binding characteristic of these two drugs and the results showed only one kind of binding site for them under the studied conditions. Displacement interactions between these drugs were also investigated by utracentrifugation-CE method and the results showed that GA hardly displaces HZ while it can slightly displace FU and FU can slightly displace HZ. For comparison, the binding of these drugs was also studied by the fluorescence quenching method and the data were processed by the Stern-Volmer quenching equation. Results showed that the binding constants were basically consistent for two methods for all drugs studied. The number of binding sites on one protein molecule was well consistent for FU and HZ while it was quite different for GA.
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