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BIOMACROMOLECULES
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 119-127Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bm800985e
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- Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology (SCF)
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan
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A core-shell-type polyion complex (PIC) micelle with a disulfide cross-linked core was prepared through the assembly of iminothiolane-modified poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(L lysine) [PEG-b-(PLL-IM)] and siRNA at a characteristic optimum mixing ratio. The PIC micelles showed a spherical shape of similar to 60 nm in diameter with a narrow distribution. The micellar structure was maintained at physiological ionic strength but was disrupted under reductive conditions because of the cleavage of disulfide cross-links, which is desirable for siRNA release in the intracellular reductive environment. Importantly, environment-responsive PIC micelles achieved 100-fold higher siRNA transfection efficacy compared with non-cross-linked PICs prepared from PEG-b-poly(L-lysine), which were not stable at physiological ionic strength. PICs formed with PEG-b-(PLL-IM) at nonoptimum ratios did not assemble into micellar structure and did not achieve gene silencing following siRNA transfection. These findings show the feasibility of core cross-linked PIC micelles as carriers for therapeutic siRNA and show that stable micellar structure is critical for effective siRNA delivery into target cells.
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