Polymeric Sorbents for Bile Acids: II. Oligopeptide-Containing Resins with Quaternary Amine Groups

The influence of competing factors on the endothermic nature of bile salt binding by cationic adsorbent

The binding of sodium chenodeoxycholate, a hydrophobic bile salt, by a polyacrylamide resin with N,N,N-trimethylammonium dodecyl chloride (QPDA12) pendant groups was studied in the presence of elevated concentrations of competing anions. The equilibrium bile salt concentration was determined from HPLC data for a range of initial bile salt concentrations. Binding constants extracted from the fit of the isotherms to the Langmuir equation were obtained for data for temperatures from 24 to 60°C. A reduction in chenodeoxycholate binding affinity was observed in comparison with that reported previously at lower overall anion concentrations. A van't Hoff analysis of the data revealed that a decrease in the favourable entropy of binding was responsible for this reduced affinity. Decomposition of the binding constants into specific contributions for the competing buffer anions and the chenodeoxycholate anion returned positive values of ΔH° and ΔS° for the binding of both the competing ions and bile salt. These findings reveal that the weakening of the bile salt binding that occurs with added salt is not due to Debye screening of an attraction between ions of opposite charge. A binding mechanism consistent with the thermodynamics observed was proposed in which the dominant role of hydration changes that occur on binding provides the principal driving force for the process.Key words: bile salts, endothermic binding, polymer sorbents, solvent randomization.

The endothermic nature of the binding of anionic bile salts to a cationic adsorbent

The binding of a hydrophobic bile salt, sodium chenodeoxycholate, by a polyacrylamide with N,N,N-trimethylammonium dodecyl chloride (QPDA12) pendant groups was studied to evaluate the thermodynamic parameters associated with the binding. The Langmuir equation was used in interpreting the data obtained from HPLC measurements. An increase in binding affinity was observed with increasing temperature indicating that the driving force for binding is derived from an increase in entropy (ΔS° = 253 J mol–1K–1) despite the positive, or unfavourable, enthalpy change (ΔH° = 53 kJ mol–1). The positive thermodynamic parameters associated with the binding suggest that the disruption of hydrophobic and (or) ionic hydration associated with the bile salts and cationic polymer is the driving force for the binding.Key words: bile salts, endothermic binding, polymer sorbents, solvent randomization.

Bile Salt Anion Sorption by Polymeric Resins: Comparison of a Functionalized Polyacrylamide Resin with Cholestyramine

Cholestyramine and a cross-linked polyacrylamide resin with lateral alkyl quaternary ammonium groups (QPDA12) were used to study their ability to bind several bile salt anions (including the cholate, glycocholate, taurocholate, and chenodeoxycholate), individually and competitively, from phosphate buffer solutions at room temperature. The latter resin showed high affinities for all the bile salt anions examined, while cholestyramine exhibited a high affinity only for the more hydrophobic chenodeoxycholate. However, for the binding with cholestyramine, cooperative effects were more pronounced, leading to the enhancement of sorption at higher concentrations. The Langmuir equation and its modified versions were used in the interpretation of both individual and competitive binding of bile salts. The data from competitive binding studies indicated that the presence of the tightly bound chenodeoxycholate did not significantly diminish the ability of QPDA12 resin to bind cholate. However, for cholestyramine, the sorption of chenodeoxycholate increased the relative binding affinity for the more hydrophilic cholate, revealing a novel "cooperative" effect involving different bile salt anions. The latter results suggest that the observed higher affinity of QPDA12 is brought about predominantly through the hydrophobic interactions with the pendant alkyl groups rather than with the resin backbone. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.