Journal
BIOMACROMOLECULES
Volume 12, Issue 12, Pages 4247-4255Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bm201111d
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- state of Bavaria through a BayEFG scholarship
- Elite Network of Bavaria (ENB)
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Nonviral gene delivery with the help of polycations has raised considerable interest in the scientific community over the past decades. Herein, we present a systematic study on the influence of the molecular weight and architecture of poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA) on the transfection efficiency and the cytotoxicity in CHO-K1 cells. A library of well-defined homopolymers with a linear and star-shaped topology (3- and 5-arm stars) was synthesized via atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). The molecular weights of the polycations ranged from 16 to 158 kDa. We found that the cytotoxicity at a given molecular weight decreased with increasing number of arms. For a successful transfection a minimum molecular weight was necessary, since the polymers with a number-average molecular weight, M-n, below 20 kDa showed negligible transfection efficiency at any of the tested polyelectrolyte complex compositions. From the combined analysis of cytotoxicity and transfection data, we propose that polymers with a branched architecture and an intermediate molecular weight are the most promising candidates for efficient gene delivery, since they combine low cytotoxicity with acceptable transfection results.
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