Substrate-initiated synthesis of cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)s.
Substrate-initiated synthesis of cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)s.
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DOI:
10.1021/ja311961k
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发表时间:
2013-02-13
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15
通讯作者:
Matile S
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作者:
Bang EK;Gasparini G;Molinard G;Roux A;Sakai N;Matile S
Lessons from surface-initiated polymerization are applied to grow cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)s directly on substrates of free choice. Reductive depolymerization after cellular uptake should then release the native substrates and minimize toxicity. In the presence of thiolated substrates, propagators containing a strained disulfide from asparagusic or, preferably, lipoic acid and a guanidinium cation polymerize into poly(disulfide)s in less than 5 min at room temperature at pH 7. Substrate-initiated polymerization of cationic poly(disulfide)s and their depolymerization with dithiothreitol causes the appearance and disappearance of transport activity in fluorogenic vesicles. The same process is further characterized by gel-permeation chromatography and fluorescence resonance energy transfer.