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ArticlePolymers2020

Encapsulation of the Natural Product Tyrosol in Carbohydrate Nanosystems and Study of Their Binding with ctDNA.

Antonella Rozaria Nefeli Pontillo, Evangelia Konstanteli, Maria M Bairaktari, Anastasia Detsi

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Article in Polymers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Heterocycles in Medicinal Chemistry III.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Antonella Rozaria Nefeli PontilloLaboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografou, Greece.
Evangelia KonstanteliLaboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografou, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8085-7810
Maria M BairaktariLaboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografou, Greece.
Anastasia DetsiLaboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografou, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8325-2980
National Technical University of Athens · GR

Funding

Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation 1415State Scholarships Foundation 2018-050-0502-14320
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tyrosol, a natural product present in olive oil and white wine, possesses a wide range of bioactivity. The aim of this study was to optimize the preparation of nanosystems encapsulating tyrosol in carbohydrate matrices and the investigation of their ability to bind with DNA. The first encapsulation matrix of choice was chitosan using the ionic gelation method. The second matrix was β-cyclodextrin (βCD) using the kneading method. Coating of the tyrosol-βCD ICs with chitosan resulted in a third nanosystem with very interesting properties. Optimal preparation parameters of each nanosystem were obtained through two three-factor, three-level Box-Behnken experimental designs and statistical analysis of the results. Thereafter, the nanoparticles were evaluated for their physical and thermal characteristics using several techniques (DLS, NMR, FT-IR, DSC, TGA). The study was completed with the investigation of the impact of the encapsulation on the ability of tyrosol to bind to calf thymus DNA. The results revealed that tyrosol and all the studied systems bind to the minor groove of ctDNA. Tyrosol interacts with ctDNA via hydrogen bond formation, as predicted via molecular modeling studies and corroborated by the experiments. The tyrosol-chitosan nanosystem does not show any binding to ctDNA whereas the βCD inclusion complex shows analogous interaction with that of free tyrosol.

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chitosanDesign of Experiment (DoE)DNA bindingnanoparticlestyrosolβ cyclodextrin

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PMID33379388
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