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BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 23-28Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00672
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- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK3450000002]
- National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (NNSFC) Project [21674104]
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Hydrophobic segments and amino moieties in polymeric nonviral gene vectors play important roles in overcoming a cascade of barriers for efficient gene delivery. However, it remains a great challenge to facilely construct well-defined multifunctional polymers through optimization of the amino and hydrophobic groups. Herein, we choose thiolactone chemistry to perform the ring opening reaction of varying hydrophobic groups-modified thiolactones by various amines to generate mercapto groups for further Michael addition reaction with poly[2-(acryloyloxy)ethyl methacrylate] (PAOEMA). Based on the combinatorial methodology, a series of multifunctional polymers were prepared and screened. The polymer (P3D) from tetraethylenepentamine and heptafluorobutyric acid-functionalized thiolactone is the most efficacious one with significantly higher gene transfection efficiency and lower cytotoxicity compared with polyethylenimine (PEI) (branched average M-w similar to 25 000 Da) and Lipofectamine 2000. Cellular uptake and intracellular distribution studies indicate that P3D complexes show high-efficiency endocytosis and excellent endosomal escape. Accordingly, thiolactone chemistry-based combinatorial methodology allows for facile integration of multifunctional groups to prepare simultaneous efficacious and low-cytotoxic gene delivery vectors.
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