Synthesis of double‐hydrophilic block copolymers via combination of oxyanion‐initiated polymerization and polymer reaction for fabricating magnetic target gene carrier
Synthesis of double‐hydrophilic block copolymers via combination of oxyanion‐initiated polymerization and polymer reaction for fabricating magnetic target gene carrier
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10.1002/pola.24851
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2011-09
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Shihua Zhang;Zixu Gu;Ying Hao;Ming-zu Zhang;P. Ni
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Shihua Zhang;Zixu Gu;Ying Hao;Ming-zu Zhang;P. Ni
In this work, we have synthesized a polycation and a polyanion via a combination of oxyanion‐initiated polymerization and polymer reaction, and then developed a novel approach to prepare a controlled magnetic target gene carrier with magnetic Fe3O4nanoparticles as core and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) segment as corona via layer‐by‐layer (LbL) assembly and shell‐crosslinking. Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) were first modified by poly[2‐(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate] (PDMAEMA) via radical polymerization. The resulting MNPs were used to compact deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) through LbL assembly, involving four steps: (1) the binding of DNA to the polycation PDMAEMA on the surface of MNPs; (2) the produced particles in Step 1 with negative charge interacting with additional polycation ethoxy group end‐capped PDMAEMA (EtO‐PDMAEMA) homopolymer, leading to a positive charge surface; (3) using carboxyl group (‐COO‐) of poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) in a diblock copolymer (MePEG2000‐b‐PMAASH) as polyanion, which has partial mercapto groups (‐SH) in PMAA segment, to interact with the particles produced in Step 2; (4) the shell of the composite nanoparticle was crosslinked by oxidizing the ‐SH groups of the MePEG2000‐b‐PMAASHto form disulfide linkage (SS). All the processes of LbL assembly were investigated by agarose gel retardation assay and zeta potential measurements. Thein vitrocytotoxicity analysis proves that polyions/DNA MNPs have excellent properties and potential applications as gene carriers. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2011