A novel NBD-derived fluorescent probe for Zn(2+) is described; the probe features ready availability, good water solubility, high sensitivity and selectivity, and ability to quantify the concentration of Zn(2+).

The soluble expression of heterologous proteins in Escherichia coli remains a serious bottleneck in protein production. Although alteration of expression conditions can sometimes solve the problem, the best available tools to date have been fusion tags that enhance the solubility of expressed proteins. However, a systematic analysis of the utility of these solubility fusions has been difficult,...

Aqueous solubility of a drug/drug candidate is essential data in drug discovery, and an in silico method for predicting the aqueous solubility of drug candidates provides a valuable tool to speed up the process of drug discovery and development. This paper describes a simple quantitative structure property relationship (QSPR) model for predicting the aqueous solubility of drugs which is validat...

Solubility can be the absorption limiting factor for drug candidates and is therefore a very important input parameter for oral exposure prediction of compounds with limited solubility. Biorelevant media of the fasted and fed state have been published for humans, as well as for dogs in the fasted state. In a drug discovery environment, rodents are the most common animal model to assess the oral...

Paracetamol is a sparingly soluble bitter tasting drug. It is widely used as an analgesic and antipyretic. Complexation of drug with different cyclodextrins (?, ? and HP-?-CD) was attempted to improve solubility of Paracetamol. During the drug excipient interaction studies, ?, ? cyclodextrins elicited analytical interference and showed considerable absorbance at ?max (243.5 nm) of Paracetamol w...

Understanding the solubility of nitrogen gas in tissues is a crucial aspect of diving physiology, especially for air-breathing tetrapods. Adipose tissue is of particular interest because of the high solubility of nitrogen in lipids. Surprisingly, nothing is known about nitrogen solubility in the blubber of any marine mammal. We tested the hypothesis that N(2) solubility is dependent on the lipi...

Fairly soluble drugs in gastrointestinal (GI) media exhibit complete oral absorption, and thus good bioavailability. About 40% of drugs are not soluble in water in practice and therefore are slowly absorbed, which results in insufficient and uneven bioavailability and GI toxicity. Thus, most exigent phase of drug development practice particularly for oral dosage forms is the enhancement of drug...

It is well established that certain highly soluble proteins have the ability to enhance the solubility of their fusion partners. However, very little is known about how different solubility enhancers compare in terms of their ability to promote the proper folding of their passenger proteins. We compared the ability of two well-known solubility enhancers, Escherichia coli maltose-binding protein...

Clopidogrel, an inhibitor of platelet aggregation, selectively inhibits the binding of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to its platelet receptor and the subsequent ADP-mediated activation of the glycoprotein GPIIb/IIIa complex, thereby inhibiting platelet aggregation. Oral bioavailability of clopidogrel is very low (less than 50%), due to its poor water solubility. The aim of this investigation was ...

Enhancement of solubility is one of the difficult tasks which become challenges in formulation development of orally administered drug with poor aqueous solubility. Poor water solubility of drugs often causes significant problems in producing formulations of sufficiently high bioavailability, preventing effective use of the drugs. 'Mixed-solvency ' concept is the phenomenon to increase the solu...