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ArticleInternational journal of pharmaceutics2020

Trans-urocanic acid enhances tenofovir alafenamide stability for long-acting HIV applications.

Antons Sizovs, Fernanda P Pons-Faudoa, Gulsah Malgir, Kathryn A Shelton, Lane R Bushman, Corrine Ying Xuan Chua, Peter L Anderson, Pramod N Nehete, K Jagannadha Sastry, Alessandro Grattoni

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Article in International journal of pharmaceutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Localized inflammasome inhibition mitigates foreign body response to subcutaneous long-acting antiretroviral therapy for HIV.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2026
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  2. Smart closed-loop drug delivery systems.Nature reviews bioengineering · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Antons SizovsDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Fernanda P Pons-FaudoaDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monterrey, NL, Mexico.
Gulsah MalgirDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
Kathryn A SheltonDepartment of Comparative Medicine, Michael E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, TX 78602, USA.
Lane R BushmanDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado- Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Corrine Ying Xuan ChuaDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Peter L AndersonDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado- Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Pramod N NeheteDepartment of Comparative Medicine, Michael E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, TX 78602, USA; The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
K Jagannadha SastryDepartment of Comparative Medicine, Michael E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, TX 78602, USA; Department of Thoracic Head and Neck Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Alessandro GrattoniDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: agrattoni@houstonmethodist.org.
Houston Methodist · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · US

Funding

A novel nanochannel system for sustained delivery of Tenofovir Alafenamide Fumarate and Emtricitabine for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxisR01AI120749 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GRATTONI, ALESSANDRO · 2016 to 2020
$3.9M
A nanofluidic platform for tunable drug deliveryR01GM127558 · NIGMS · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GRATTONI, ALESSANDRO, LIU, XUEWU · 2018 to 2021
$1.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI120749NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM127558
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long-acting (LA) pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention is poised to address non-adherence and implementation challenges by alleviating the burden of user-dependent dosing. Due to its potency, tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) is a viable candidate for LA PrEP. However, the inherent hydrolytic instability of TAF presents a challenge for application in LA systems. In this work, we examined the mechanism of TAF hydrolysis in a reservoir-based implant system and characterized TAF degradation kinetics as a function of the solution pH. We determined a pH "stability window" between pH 4.8 - 5.8 in which TAF degradation is substantially mitigated, with minimal degradation at pH 5.3. In a pursuit of a TAF formulation suitable for LA PrEP, we studied trans-urocanic acid (UA) as a buffer excipient. Here we show that UA can maintain the pH of TAF free base (TAF

Indexed as

Anti-HIV AgentsHIV InfectionsUrocanic AcidAdenineAlanineAnimalsLeukocytes, MononuclearTenofovirAdenineAlanineAnti-HIV AgentsTenofovirtenofovir alafenamideUrocanic AcidDrug formulationHIV PrEPImplantsLong-acting drug delivery

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PMID32663582
PMCPMC7484042
OpenAlexW3040784183

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