Dimethyldioctadecylammonium (DDA) is a cationic amphipathic lipid. DDA liposomes containing an Ag85B-ESAT-6 antigen induce antigen deposition at an intramuscular or subcutaneous injection site in mice, increasing immune cell exposure to the antigen. In a guinea pig model of M. tuberculosis infection, spleen bacterial load is reduced and lung and spleen lesion numbers are decreased when the mycobacterial lipid antigens Ac2SGL and PIM2 are administered in liposomes comprised of DDA and a synthetic analog of the mycobacterial cord factor trehalose 6,6-dibehenate (TDB). DDA has also been used in the study of lipid bilayer dynamics.
93-O17S is a chalcogen-containing cationic lipidoid.1It has been used in the synthesis of lipid nanoparticles (LPNs) for the delivery of Cre recombinase and ribonucleoproteins for genome editing in mice. LPNs containing 93-O17S have been used for the intratumoral delivery of cGAMP to enhance cross-presentation of tumor antigens and stimulation of interferon genes (STING) activation in a B16/F10 murine melanoma model.2
1.Li, Y., Yang, T., Yu, Y., et al.Combinatorial library of chalcogen-containing lipidoids for intracellular delivery of genome-editing proteinsBiomaterials178652-662(2018) 2.Chen, J., Qiu, M., Ye, Z., et al.In situ cancer vaccination using lipidoid nanoparticlesSci. Adv.7(19)eabf1244(2021)