The development of new biocompatible, biodegradable functionalized biopolymers that can serve as scaffold for tissue regeneration or work as carriers for different bioactive molecules such as drugs, proteins, and enzymes remains a continuous challenge that need to be extensively explored. For this purpose, three water-soluble cellulose derivatives; namely 4(celluloseamino) butyric acid (CABA) 2(celluloseamino) succinic acid (CASA), and 3(celluloseamino) propane sulfonic acids (CAPSA) were synthesized from microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) via esterification with tosyl chloride that was followed by nucleophilic substitution by the proper aminoalkyl acid derivative. The products were characterized by elemental analyses, FTIR, C NMR spectroscopy. The thermal stability, surface morphology, and the elemental composition of the new ampholytic biopolymers were also studied by TGA, EDX-SEM. The new ampholytic cellulose derivatives were evaluated for their in vitro cytotoxicity on normal human retina cell line (RPE1) by MTT assay.
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