ArticleMolecular pharmaceutics2022
Molecular Descriptors as a Facile Tool toward Designing Surface-Functionalized Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery.
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- Lipid nanomaterials-based RNA therapy and cancer treatment.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2023Review
- Craft of Co-encapsulation in Nanomedicine: A Struggle To Achieve Synergy through Reciprocity.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2022Review
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Abstract
Modulating the surface chemistry of nanoparticles, often by grafting hydrophilic polymer brushes (e.g., polyethylene glycol) to prepare nanoformulations that can resist opsonization in a hematic environment and negotiate with the mucus barrier, is a popular strategy toward developing biocompatible and effective nano-drug delivery systems. However, there is a need for tools that can screen multiple surface ligands and cluster them based on both structural similarity and physicochemical attributes. Molecular descriptors offer numerical readouts based on molecular properties and provide a fertile ground for developing quick screening platforms. Thus, a study was conducted with 14 monomers/repeating blocks of polymeric chains, namely, oxazoline, acrylamide, vinylpyrrolidone, glycerol, acryloyl morpholine, dimethyl acrylamide, hydroxypropyl methacrylamide, hydroxyethyl methacrylamide, sialic acid, carboxybetaine acrylamide, carboxybetaine methacrylate, sulfobetaine methacrylate, methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine, and vinyl-pyridinio propanesulfonate, capable of imparting hydrophilicity to a surface when assembled as polymeric brushes. Employing free, Web-based, and user-friendly platforms, such as SwissADME and ChemMine tools, a series of molecular descriptors and Tanimoto coefficient of molecular pairs were determined, followed by hierarchical clustering analyses. Molecular pairs of oxazoline/dimethyl acrylamide, hydroxypropyl methacrylamide/hydroxyethyl methacrylamide, acrylamide/glycerol, carboxybetaine acrylamide/vinyl-pyridinio propanesulfonate, and sulfobetaine methacrylate/methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine were clustered together. Similarly, the molecular pair of hydroxypropyl methacrylamide/hydroxyethyl methacrylamide demonstrated a high Tanimoto coefficient of >0.9, whereas the pairs oxazoline/vinylpyrrolidone, acrylamide/dimethyl acrylamide, acryloyl morpholine/dimethyl acrylamide, acryloyl morpholine/hydroxypropyl methacrylamide, acryloyl morpholine/hydroxyethyl methacrylamide, carboxybetaine methacrylate/sulfobetaine methacrylate, and glycerol/hydroxypropyl methacrylamide had a Tanimoto coefficient of >0.8. The analyzed data not only demonstrated the ability of such
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