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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 134, Issue 18, Pages 7596-7599Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja300690j
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- Purdue Department of Chemistry
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A novel siRNA delivery vector has been developed, based on the self-assembly of monosubstituted cationic beta-CD derivatives with a poly(vinyl alcohol)-MW27kD (PVA) main-chain polymer bearing poly(ethylene glycol)MW2000 (PEG) and acid-labile cholesterol-modified (Chol) grafts through an acid-sensitive benzylidene acetal linkage. These components were investigated for their ability to form nanoparticles with siRNA using two different assembly schemes, involving either precomplexation of the pendant Chol-PVA-PEG polymer with the cationic beta-CD derivatives before siRNA condensation or siRNA condensation with the cationic beta-CD derivatives prior to addition of Chol-PVA-PEG to engage host:guest complexation. The pendant polymer:amino-beta-CD:siRNA complexes were shown to form nanoparticles in the size range of 120-170 nm, with a slightly negative zeta potential. Cell viability studies in CHO-GFP cells shows that these materials have 10(3)-fold lower cytotoxicities than 25 kD bPEI, while maintaining gene-silencing efficiencies that are comparable to those of benchmark transfection reagents such as bPEI and Lipofectamine 2000. These results suggest that the degradable Chol-PVA-PEG polymer is able to self-assemble in the presence of siRNA and cationic-beta-CD to form nanoparticles that are an effective and low-toxicity vehicle for delivering siRNA cargo to target cells.
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