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Loss of individual electrostatic interactions between aminoglycoside antibiotics and resistance enzymes as an effective means to overcoming bacterial drug resistance
Roestamadji, Juliatiek,Grapsas, Ioannis,Mobashery, Shahriar
, p. 11060 - 11069 (1995)
Aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes modify the structures of aminoglycoside antibiotics, rendering them ineffective, a process which confers resistance to the antibiotic. Electrostatic interactions (ion pairing and hydrogen bonding) are believed to be signif
Aminoglycoside-derived cationic lipids for gene transfection: Synthesis of kanamycin A derivatives
Sainlos, Matthieu,Belmont, Philippe,Vigneron, Jean-Pierre,Lehn, Pierre,Lehn, Jean-Marie
, p. 2764 - 2774 (2003)
Cationic lipids are currently actively investigated as an alternative approach to recombinant viruses for gene transfer studies and gene therapy applications. Basically, they rely on the formation of lipid/DNA aggregates via electrostatic interactions between their cationic headgroup and the negatively charged DNA. The development of new amphiphilic structures should allow to shed light on their still poorly understood structure/activity relationship and thereby help to design improved vectors. It appears that aminoglycosides, which are natural polyamines known to bind to nucleic acids, provide a favourable scaffold for the synthesis of a variety of cationic lipids because of their structural features and multifunctional nature. The synthesis and full characterization of a series of lipophilic derivatives of the aminoglycoside antibiotic kanamycin A, mainly kanamycin-cholesterol conjugates, are reported herein. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2003.
