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Sterolight as imaging tool to study sterol uptake, trafficking and efflux in living cells.

Information about cholesterol subcellular localization and transport pathways inside cells is essential for understanding and treatment of cholesterol-related diseases. However, there is a lack of reliable tools to monitor it. This work follows the fate of Sterolight, a BODIPY-labelled sterol, within the cell and demonstrates it as a suitable probe for visualization of sterol/lipid trafficking.

Properties of cationic monosubstituted tetraalkylammonium cyclodextrin derivatives - their stability, complexation ability in solution or when deposited on solid anionic surface.

The thermal stability of the monosubstituted cationic cyclodextrin (CD) derivatives PEMEDA-β-CD and PEMPDA-β-CD, which differ in their substituent linker length (ethylene and propylene, respectively), was studied via (1)H NMR experiments. PEMPDA-β-CD exhibited higher resistance towards the Hofmann degradation and was chosen as a more suitable host molecule for further studies. Inclusion properties of PEMPDA-β-CD in solution with a series of simple aromatic guests (salicylic acid, p-methoxyphenol and p-nitroaniline) were determined by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and compared to the native β-CD.

A complete series of 6-deoxy-monosubstituted tetraalkylammonium derivatives of α-, β-, and γ-cyclodextrin with 1, 2, and 3 permanent positive charges.

An efficient synthetic route toward the preparation of a complete series of monosubstituted tetraalkylammonium cyclodextrin (CD) derivatives is presented. Monotosylation of native CDs (α-, β-, γ-) at position 6 gave the starting material. Reaction of monotosylate (mono-Ts-CD) with 45% aqueous trimethylamine gave CDs substituted with one cationic functional group in a single step.

Synthesis of 3I-O and 2I-O-monosubstituted derivatives of per-6-azido-β-cyclodextrin-potential molecular scaffolds.

Alkylation of per-6-azido-β-cyclodextrin by a suitable electrophilic reagent (cinnamyl bromide or propargyl bromide) gave a mixture of 3(I)-O and 2(I)-O regioisomers. After peracetylation and chromatographic separation on silica gel, pure isomers were isolated. Oxidative cleavage of cinnamyl double bond afforded the corresponding formylmethyl and carboxymethyl derivatives.