Beyond hydrophilic polymers in amphiphilic polymer-based self-assembled NanoCarriers: Small hydrophilic carboxylate-capped disulfide drug delivery system and its multifunctionality and multispatial targetability
An amphiphilic polymer RGD-PEG-Chol which can be produced in large scale at a very low cost has been synthesized successfully. The synthesized intermediates and final products were characterized and confirmed by1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum (1H NMR) and Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR). The paclitaxel- (PTX-) loaded liposomes based on RGD-PEG-Chol were then prepared by film formation method. The liposomes had a size within 100 nm and significantly enhanced the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel to B16F10 cell as demonstrated by MTT test (IC50= 0.079 μg/mL of RGD-modified PTX-loaded liposomes compared to 9.57 μg/mL of free PTX). Flow cytometry analysis revealed that the cellular uptake of coumarin encapsulated in the RGD-PEG-Chol modified liposome was increased for HUVEC cells. This work provides a reasonable, facile, and economic approach to prepare peptide-modified liposome materials with controllable performances and the obtained linear RGD-modified PTX-loaded liposomes might be attractive as a drug delivery system.
A novel RNA-triple-helix hydrogel for treatment of triple negative breast cancers (TNBCs) by incorporating RNA-triple-helix and siRNA duplexes of CXCR4 into the same RNA nanoparticles was developed, without the synthetic polycationic reagents.
Supramolecular hydrogel, AGC16/NTS, was used to encapsulate hydrophobic drug curcumin (Cur), constructing a pH-responsive drug delivery system; the uptake of released Cur by cancer cells also occurred.
A polymer drug delivery system was developed using crosslinked self-assembled micelles, which form stable coreshell particles. The block copolymer, composed of poly [poly (ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylat-block-[poly (methyl methacrylate-p-nitrophenyl acrylate)] [P(PEGMEMA)-b-P(MMA-NPA)], was synthesized via reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. The self-assembled micelles were stabilized by core crosslinking through the reaction of p-nitrophenyl acrylate with 1,8-octandiamine forming stable coreshell particles.
Synthesis, Characterization, and Evaluation of a Novel Amphiphilic Polymer RGD-PEG-Chol for Target Drug Delivery System