Design and Synthesis of Functional Deuterated Biomaterials
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 703
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Deuterium-labelled compounds have found extensive applications in such research areas as pharmaceutical, bioanalytical, neutron diffraction, inelastic neutron scattering, and in the analysis of drug metabolism using mass spectrometry (MS) and the structure of biomolecules using NMR. In most cases, deuterated compounds have very similar physical and chemical properties to their naturally occurring pronated parent compounds. Deuterium labelling, however, does alter a number of the properties that can be used in some experimental techniques. For example, the increase in mass from the additional neutrons can be exploited by mass spectrometry to differentiate isotope-labelled fatty acids (used as internal standards or tracers of metabolic flux) and endogenous fatty acids extracted from biological samples. Moreover, deuteration results in vastly different NMR spectroscopic and neutron scattering signals.
For these reasons, the interest in new methodologies for the deuterium labelling of biomolecules and the extent of their applications are equally rising. Per-deuteration is often not possible on the whole molecule due to the presence of some functional groups like amines, hydroxyl, aldehyde, ether, or ketone. Therefore, the proper synthetic transformation of functional groups from a deuterated precursor is often necessary in a fashion that achieves the functionality of the desired compound with the desired deuteration levels.
Dr. Nageshwar R. Yepuri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- deuterated lipids
- deuterated phospholipids
- lipid nano particle
- lipid nano discs
- deuterated fatty acids
- deuterated amino acids
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