期刊
JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY
卷 47, 期 5, 页码 1450-1462出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pola.23254
关键词
click chemistry; hetero-arm star polymer; micelles; peptides; polyelectrolyte complex micelles; ring-opening polymerization; star polymers; stimuli-responsive polymers; thermo-responsibility
资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2007CB936401]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University
A hetero-arm star polymer, poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-poly(L-lysine) (PEG-PNIPAM-PLys), was synthesized by clicking the azide group at the junction of PEG-b-PNIPAM diblock copolymer with the alkyne endgroup of poly(L-lysine) (PLys) homopolymer via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. The resultant polymer was characterized by gel permeation chromatography, proton nuclear magnetic resonance, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopes. Surprisingly, the PNIPAM arm of this hetero-arm star polymer nearly lose its thermal responsibility. It is found that stable polyelectrolyte complex micelles are formed when mixing the synthesized polymer with poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) in water. The resultant polyelectrolyte complex micelles are core-shell spheres with the ion-bonded PLys/PAA chains as core and the PEG and PNIPAM chains as shell. The PNIPAM shell is, as expected, thermally responsive. However, its lower critical solution temperature is shifted to 37.5 degrees C, presumably because of the existence of hydrophilic components in the micelles. Such star-like PEG-PNIPAM-PLys polymer with different functional arms as well as its complexation with anionic polymers provides an excellent and well-defined model for the design of nonviral vectors to deliver DNA, RNA, and anionic molecular medicines. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 47: 1450-1462, 2009
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