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BIOMACROMOLECULES
卷 22, 期 12, 页码 5052-5064出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c01039
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- Royal Society [2017-NF171487]
- EU H2020 [MSCA-IF-792957]
- ERC [CheSSTaG 769798]
- EPSRC Established Career Fellowship [EP/N026322/1]
- Jeol and DENS Solutions
- UK's ESPRC [EP/N026322/1]
- Spanish State Research Agency (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) [IJC2018-037951-I]
- EPSRC [EP/N026322/1] Funding Source: UKRI
This study presents a one-pot synthesis method for oxidation-sensitive supramolecular micelles and vesicles, utilizing polymerization-induced self-assembly to form various nanoscale structures under specific conditions. The obtained vesicles and wormlike micelles demonstrated degradation under controlled oxidant conditions, expanding their potential applications in drug release and cellular scaffolding in tissue engineering.
Polypeptide-based nanoparticles offer unique advantages from a nanomedicine perspective such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, and stimuli-responsive properties to (patho)physiological conditions. Conventionally, self-assembled polypeptide nanostructures are prepared by first synthesizing their constituent amphiphilic polypeptides followed by postpolymerization self-assembly. Herein, we describe the one-pot synthesis of oxidation-sensitive supramolecular micelles and vesicles. This was achieved by polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) of the N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) precursor of methionine using poly(ethylene oxide) as a stabilizing and hydrophilic block in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). By adjusting the hydrophobic block length and concentration, we obtained a range of morphologies from spherical to wormlike micelles, to vesicles. Remarkably, the secondary structure of polypeptides greatly influenced the final morphology of the assemblies. Surprisingly, wormlike micellar morphologies were obtained for a wide range of methionine block lengths and solid contents, with spherical micelles restricted to very short hydrophobic lengths. Wormlike micelles further assembled into oxidation-sensitive, self-standing gels in the reaction pot. Both vesicles and wormlike micelles obtained using this method demonstrated to degrade under controlled oxidant conditions, which would expand their biomedical applications such as in sustained drug release or as cellular scaffolds in tissue engineering.
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