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SOFT MATTER
Volume 8, Issue 7, Pages 2252-2260Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2sm07068e
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- 973 Program [2009CB930300]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31100722, 30772007]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20090032120013]
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In this study, well-defined amphiphilic cationic triblock copolymers with different lengths of polycationic chain, methoxy poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(D, L-lactide)-b-poly(2-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) (mPEG-b-PDLLA-b-PDMA), were synthesized and evaluated as carriers for gene delivery. The prepared copolymers can self-assemble into spherical core-shell nanoparticles (NPs). The NPs have a very low critical micelle concentration (CMC) value with only 0.025 mg mL(-1). Both copolymers can completely condense the pDNA into spherical complexes when the N/P ratio is equal to or above 3. Bovine serum albumin challenging and DNase I protection assay results demonstrate the mPEG-b-PDLLA-b-PDMA NPs can effectively protect the DNA against protein and nucleases. MTT assay results indicate that mPEG-b-PDLLA-b-PDMA NP/pDNA complexes exhibit obviously lower cytotoxicity compared with commercial gene transfection reagent Lipofectamine 2000/pDNA complexes. Subsequently, in vitro gene transfection studies in HeLa cells without serum show that mPEG(113)-b-PDLLA(10)-b-PDMA(120) NP/pDNA complexes exhibit higher transfection efficiency than Lipofectamine 2000. Although the transfection efficiency is lower than that in the absence of serum, mPEG(113)-b-PDLLA(10)-b-PDMA(120) NPs still display equivalent gene transfection efficiency compared to Lipofectamine 2000 when N/P ratio is above 15 in DMEM with 10% serum.
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