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Glycol chitosan: A stabilizer of lipid rafts in the intestinal brush border.

Chitosan is a polycationic polysaccharide consisting of β-(1-4)-linked glucosamine units and due to its mucoadhesive properties, chemical derivatives of chitosan are potential candidates as enhancers for transmucosal drug delivery. Recently, glycol chitosan (GC), a soluble derivative of chitosan, was shown to bind specifically to lipid raft domains in model bilayers. The small intestinal brush border membrane has a unique lipid raft composition with high amounts of glycolipids cross-linked by lectins, and the aim of the present work therefore was to study the interaction of FITC-conjugated GC (FITC-GC) with the small intestinal epithelium. Using organ culture of pig jejunal mucosal explants as a model system, we observed widespread binding of luminal FITC-GC to the brush border. Only little uptake via constitutive endocytosis into apical early endosomes occurred, unless endocytosis was induced by the simultaneous presence of cholera toxin B subunit (CTB). Biochemically, GC bound to microvillus membrane vesicles and caused a change in the density profile of detergent resistant membranes (DRMs). Collectively, the results showed that FITC-GC binds passively to lipid raft domains in the brush border, i.e. without inducing endocytosis like CTB. Instead, and unlike CTB, FITC-GC seems to exert a stabilizing, detergent-protective effect on the lipid raft organization of the brush border.

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