A mechanistic study of the permeation kinetics through biomembrane models: gemcitabine-phospholipid bilayer interaction.

The kinetics of the interaction between Gemcitabine (a new anticancer drug) and phospholipid membrane models was investigated. This kind of study is of particular importance both in hypothesizing the interaction of Gemcitabine with mammalian cell membranes and in evaluating the potentiality of liposomes as a Gemcitabine delivery system. Unilamellar (LUV) and multilamellar (MLV) membrane models were made up of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), dimyristoylphosphatidic acid sodium salt (DMPA), or a DMPC-DMPA mixture (1:1 molar ratio). Gemcitabine-phospholipid vesicle interaction was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements performed at different time intervals. The findings showed slower permeation kinetics of Gemcitabine through MLV than LUV which, at the same lipid/water ratio, are characterized by a larger lipid surface in contact with the drug aqueous solution. Another interesting difference between LUV and MLV is the onset of a transient two-peak structure during the DSC scans of MLVs. The effect is due to the unequal distribution of the drug between the outer and inner bilayers of the multilamellar vesicles during the permeation kinetics. At equilibrium the two-peak structure merges into a unique peak. This finding may provide useful information about the lipid bilayer permeability in model membranes.

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