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Direct Optofluidic Measurement of the Lipid Permeability of Fluoroquinolones.

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Hernández-Ainsa, Silvia 
Pagliara, Stefano 

Abstract

Quantifying drug permeability across lipid membranes is crucial for drug development. In addition, reduced membrane permeability is a leading cause of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and hence there is a need for new technologies that can quantify antibiotic transport across biological membranes. We recently developed an optofluidic assay that directly determines the permeability coefficient of autofluorescent drug molecules across lipid membranes. Using ultraviolet fluorescence microscopy, we directly track drug accumulation in giant lipid vesicles as they traverse a microfluidic device while exposed to the drug. Importantly, our measurement does not require the knowledge of the octanol partition coefficient of the drug - we directly determine the permeability coefficient for the specific drug-lipid system. In this work, we report measurements on a range of fluoroquinolone antibiotics and find that their pH dependent lipid permeability can span over two orders of magnitude. We describe various technical improvements for our assay, and provide a new graphical user interface for data analysis to make the technology easier to use for the wider community.

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Keywords

Cell Membrane Permeability, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical, Enrofloxacin, Equipment Design, Fluoroquinolones, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Lab-On-A-Chip Devices, Lipids, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Phosphatidylcholines

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2045-2322
2045-2322

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6

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
The work was supported by an ERC Consolidator grant “DesignerPores” awarded to UFK. JC acknowledges support from the BBSRC. MS was supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and the Swiss- European Mobility Programme. KAN was supported by the Erasmus Plus student exchange programme. SHA is supported by a Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship. SP acknowledges support from the Leverhulme Trust through an Early Career Fellowship (ECF-2013-444).