Journal
BIOMATERIALS
Volume 199, Issue -, Pages 10-21Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.01.045
Keywords
Bioactive biomaterials; Citric acid-based polymers; Module assembly; Photoluminescence; Gene delivery; Targeted tumor bioimaging
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1501245, 51502237, 51872224]
- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University [2018LHM-KFKT004]
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Targeted tumor imaging and efficient specific gene delivery in vivo has been one of the main challenges in gene-based cancer diagnosis and therapy. Herein, we engineered a citric acid-based polymer with intrinsical photoluminescence and gene loading capacity to achieve targeted delivery of siRNA and tumor imaging in vitro and in vivo. The multifunctional platform was formed from the self-assembling of poly (citric acid)-polymine conjugated with folic acid and rhodamine B (PPFR). PPFR showed stable photoluminescent ability and could effectively bind and protect the siRNA against RNase degradation. PPFR also exhibited good blood compatibility and cell compatibility against C2C12, MCF-7 and A549. Compared with commercial transfection agent Lipofectamine (TM) 2000, PPFR had a high cellular uptake, equivalent transfection efficiency and effectively down-regulated intracellular p65 expression in A549 cancer cells. Importantly, PPFR could efficiently accumulate and label the tumor tissue through the fluorescent imaging, selectively deliver siRNA into tumor tissue in vivo based on the tumor-bearing nude mice model. This work may provide a facile strategy to synthesize multifunctional biocompatible biomaterials for targeted tumor imaging and gene therapy.
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