Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
Biomaterials. 2010 Mar;31(7):1798-804. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.10.034. Epub 2009 Oct 24.
Guanidinylated bioreducible polymer (GBP) was developed for gene delivery systems utilizing cellular penetrating ability of guanidine groups. GBP could retard pDNA from a weight ratio of 5 completely in agarose gel electrophoresis but pDNA was released from GBP polyplexes even at a weight ratio of 20 in reducing condition (2.5mm DTT) due to their biodegradation. GBP also could construct 200 nm-sized and positively charged (approximately 30 mV) polyplex nanoparticles with pDNA. The cytotoxicity of GBP was found to be minimal and GBP showed about 8 folds improved transfection efficiency than a scaffold polymer, poly(cystaminebisacrylamide-diaminohexane) (poly(CBA-DAH)) and even higher transfection efficiency than PEI25k in mammalian cell lines. Its high cellular uptake efficiency (96.1%) and strong nuclear localization ability for pDNA delivery due to the structural advantage of bioreducible polymer and guanidine groups were also identified, suggesting GBP is a promising candidate for efficient gene delivery systems.
胍基化生物可还原聚合物(GBP)被开发用于基因传递系统,利用胍基的细胞穿透能力。GBP 可以在琼脂糖凝胶电泳中完全阻止 pDNA 的重量比为 5,但在还原条件(2.5mM DTT)下,即使重量比为 20,pDNA 也会从 GBP 聚合物中释放出来,这是由于它们的生物降解。GBP 还可以与 pDNA 构建 200nm 大小的正电荷(约 30mV)聚合物纳米颗粒。研究发现,GBP 的细胞毒性最小,与支架聚合物聚(半胱氨酸双丙烯酰胺-二氨基己烷)(poly(CBA-DAH))相比,GBP 的转染效率提高了约 8 倍,甚至比在哺乳动物细胞系中 PEI25k 的转染效率更高。由于生物可还原聚合物和胍基的结构优势,其具有高细胞摄取效率(96.1%)和强的 pDNA 递送至细胞核的能力,这也表明 GBP 是一种很有前途的高效基因传递系统候选物。