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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL NANOSCIENCE
卷 8, 期 5, 页码 539-552出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17458080.2011.602120
关键词
chitosan; nanoparticles; gene therapy; DNA
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- Fapesp (Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo) [2007/00339-7]
- CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico)
- Fapesp
ChitosanDNA nanoparticles employed in gene therapy protocols consist of a neutralised, stoichiometric core and a shell of the excess of chitosan which stabilises the particles against further coagulation. At low ionic strength, these nanoparticles possess a high stability; however, as the ionic strength increases, it weakens the electrostatic repulsion which can play a decisive part in the formation of highly aggregated particles. In this study, new results about the effect of ionic strength on the colloidal stability of chitosanDNA nanoparticles were obtained by studying the interaction between chitosans of increasing molecular weights (5, 10, 16, 29, 57 and 150kDa) and calf thymus DNA. The physicochemical properties of polyplexes were investigated by means of dynamic light scattering, static fluorescence spectroscopy, optic microscopy, transmission electronic microscopy and gel electrophoresis. After subsequent addition of salt to the nanoparticles solution, secondary aggregation increased the size of the polyplexes. The nanoparticles stability decreased drastically at the ionic strengths 150 and 500mM, which caused the corresponding decrease in the thickness of the stabilising shell. The morphologies of chitosan/DNA nanoparticles at those ionic strengths were a mixture of large spherical aggregates, toroids and rods. The results indicated that to obtain stable chitosanDNA nanoparticles, besides molecular weight and N/P ratio, it is quite important to control the ionic strength of the solution.
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