Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug widely used to treat inflammatory diseases, and for its analgesic and antipyretic activity. Although operating as a protein inhibitor, it is also known to interact with lipid membranes. We combined calorimetry, electron spin resonance, attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared and molecular docking to characterize the interaction of ibuprofen with dimyristyolphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) bilayers, as a function of temperature and drug concentration. At increasing concentration, ibuprofen first perturbs and then suppresses the DMPC pre-transition, stabilizes the fluid state, and favours gel-fluid phase coexistence. The drug decreases the molecular packing of the polar heads and of the first methylene segments of lipid membranes in the gel phase, whereas it leaves unperturbed the chain flexibility in the liquid-crystalline phase. The action of ibuprofen also leads to a higher degree of hydration of the bilayer polar heads and favours hydrogen bond formation with solvent molecules. The overall results reveal that ibuprofen affects a number of key molecular properties of DMPC bilayers by binding through non-specific interactions at the polar/apolar interface.

Association of ibuprofen at the polar/apolar interface of lipid membranes / Aloi, Erika; Rizzuti, Bruno; Guzzi, Rita; Bartucci, Rosa. - In: ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS. - ISSN 0003-9861. - 654:(2018), pp. 77-84. [10.1016/j.abb.2018.07.013]

Association of ibuprofen at the polar/apolar interface of lipid membranes

Aloi, Erika;
2018-01-01

Abstract

Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug widely used to treat inflammatory diseases, and for its analgesic and antipyretic activity. Although operating as a protein inhibitor, it is also known to interact with lipid membranes. We combined calorimetry, electron spin resonance, attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared and molecular docking to characterize the interaction of ibuprofen with dimyristyolphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) bilayers, as a function of temperature and drug concentration. At increasing concentration, ibuprofen first perturbs and then suppresses the DMPC pre-transition, stabilizes the fluid state, and favours gel-fluid phase coexistence. The drug decreases the molecular packing of the polar heads and of the first methylene segments of lipid membranes in the gel phase, whereas it leaves unperturbed the chain flexibility in the liquid-crystalline phase. The action of ibuprofen also leads to a higher degree of hydration of the bilayer polar heads and favours hydrogen bond formation with solvent molecules. The overall results reveal that ibuprofen affects a number of key molecular properties of DMPC bilayers by binding through non-specific interactions at the polar/apolar interface.
2018
ATR-FTIR
Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine
DSC
Ibuprofen
Molecular docking
Spin-label ESR
Biophysics
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
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