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ArticleMacromolecular bioscience2015

A Low Protein Binding Cationic Poly(2-oxazoline) as Non-Viral Vector.

Zhijian He, Lei Miao, Rainer Jordan, Devika S-Manickam, Robert Luxenhofer, Alexander V Kabanov

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Article in Macromolecular bioscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Zhijian HeCenter for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Lei MiaoCenter for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Rainer JordanDepartment Chemie, Technische Universität Dresden, Mommsenstr. 4, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
Devika S-ManickamCenter for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Robert LuxenhoferFunctional Polymer Materials, Chair for Chemical Technology of Materials Synthesis, Universität Würzburg, 97070 Würzburg, Germany. robert.luxenhofer@uni-wuerzburg.de.
Alexander V KabanovLaboratory for Chemical Design of Bionanomaterials, Faculty of Chemistry, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia. kabanov@email.unc.edu.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USLomonosov Moscow State University · RUTechnische Universität Dresden · DE

Funding

High Capacity Nanocarriers for Cancer ChemotherapeuticsU01CA151806 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KABANOV, ALEXANDER V · 2010 to 2014
$2.0M
Polymer Based Gene DeliveryR01CA116591 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI KABANOV, ALEXANDER V · 2006 to 2010
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA116591NCI NIH HHS U01 CA116591NCI NIH HHS U01 CA151806
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developing safe and efficient non-viral gene delivery systems remains a major challenge. We present a new cationic poly(2-oxazoline) (CPOx) block copolymer for gene therapy that was synthesized by sequential polymerization of non-ionic 2-methyl-2-oxazoline and a new 2-oxazoline monomer, 2-(N-methyl, N-Boc-amino)-methyl-2-oxazoline, followed by deprotection of the pendant secondary amine groups. Upon mixing with plasmid DNA (pDNA), CPOx forms small (diameter ≈80 nm) and narrowly dispersed polyplexes (PDI <0.2), which are stable upon dilution in saline and against thermal challenge. These polyplexes exhibited low plasma protein binding and very low cytotoxicity in vitro compared to the polyplexes of pDNA and poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(L-lysine) (PEG-b-PLL). CPOx/pDNA polyplexes at N/P = 5 bound considerably less plasma protein compared to polyplexes of PEG-b-PLL at the same N/P ratio. This is a unique aspect of the developed polyplexes emphasizing their potential for systemic delivery in vivo. The transfection efficiency of the polyplexes in B16 murine melanoma cells was low after 4 h, but increased significantly for 10 h exposure time, indicative of slow internalization of polyplexes. Addition of Pluronic P85 boosted the transfection using CPOx/pDNA polyplexes considerably. The low protein binding of CPOx/pDNA polyplexes is particularly interesting for the future development of targeted gene delivery.

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Gene Transfer TechniquesAnimalsMelanomaMiceOxazolesPlasmidsPoloxaleneProtein BindingTransfectionTumor Cells, CulturedOxazolespluronic block copolymer p85Poloxalenepoly(2-oxazoline)biocompatibilityclick chemistrygene deliverymacrophage transfectionnon-fouling

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PMCPMC4893346
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