Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 28, Issue 33, Pages 11988-11996Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la3015767
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20720102041, 50733004]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KJCX2-YW-H19]
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Herein we report a coassembly method toward the preparation of pH-sensitive polymeric vesicular aggregates, using comb-shaped amphiphilic polymers, i.e., cholate grafted poly(L-lysine) (PLL-CA), with an amphiphilic poly(ethylene glycol) doxorubicin conjugate (PEG-DOX). Because the drug conjugate includes a low-pH labile bond, i.e., benzoic imine, the permeability of the coassembled polymeric vesicles can be tuned by changing either the PLL-CA/PEG-DOX weight ratio or the environmental pH from 7.4 to 6.5. Furthermore, at lower pH values such as 5.0, the vesicles destabilize. The pH sensitivity leads to enhanced uptake of the vesicles by cancer cells (MCF-7) under a condition close to the extracellular environment of solid tumor (pH = 6.5) and subsequent efficient endosome escape after the endocytosis.
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