Poly(ε-caprolactone)-block-polysarcosine by Ring-Opening Polymerization of Sarcosine N-Thiocarboxyanhydride: Synthesis and Thermoresponsive Self-Assembly
Poly(ε-caprolactone)-<i>block</i>-polysarcosine by Ring-Opening Polymerization of Sarcosine <i>N</i>-Thiocarboxyanhydride: Synthesis and Thermoresponsive Self-Assembly
作者:Yangwei Deng、Tao Zou、Xinfeng Tao、Vincent Semetey、Sylvain Trepout、Sergio Marco、Jun Ling、Min-Hui Li
DOI:10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00930
日期:2015.10.12
Biocompatible amphiphilic block copolymers composed of polysarcosine (PSar) and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) were synthesized using ring-opening polymerization of sarcosine N-thiocarboxyanhydride initiated by oxyamine-ended PCL and characterized by NMR, SEC, and DSC. Self-assembling of two triblock copolymers PSar8-b-PCL28-b-PSar8 (CS7) and PSar16-b-PCL40-b-PSar16 (CS10) in dilute solution was studied in detail toward polymersome formation using thin-film hydration and nanoprecipitation techniques. A few giant vesicles were obtained by thin-film hydration from both copolymers and visualized by confocal laser scanning microscope. Unilamellar sheets and nanofibers (with 8–10 nm thickness or diameter) were obtained by nanoprecipitation at room temperature and observed by Cryo-TEM. These lamellae and fibrous structures were transformed into worm-like cylinders and spheres (D ∼ 30–100 nm) after heating to 65 °C (>Tm,PCL). Heating CS10 suspensions to 90 °C led eventually to multilamellar polymersomes (D ∼ 100–500 nm). Mechanism II, where micelles expand to vesicles through water diffusion and hydrophilic core forming, was proposed for polymersome formation. A cell viability test confirmed the self-assemblies were not cytotoxic.
Therapeutic Delivery of H<sub>2</sub>S via COS: Small Molecule and Polymeric Donors with Benign Byproducts
作者:Chadwick R. Powell、Jeffrey C. Foster、Benjamin Okyere、Michelle H. Theus、John B. Matson
DOI:10.1021/jacs.6b07204
日期:2016.10.19
Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is a gas that may play important roles in mammalian and bacterial biology, but its study is limited by a lack of suitable donor molecules. We report here the use of N-thiocarboxyanhydrides (NTAs) as COS donors that release the gas in a sustained manner under biologically relevant conditions with innocuous peptide byproducts. Carbonic anhydrase converts COS into H2S, allowing NTAs to serve as either COS or H2S donors, depending on the availability of the enzyme. Analysis of the pseudo-first-order H2S release rate under biologically relevant conditions revealed a release half-life of 75 min for the small molecule NTA under investigation. A polynorbornene bearing pendant NTAs made by ring-opening metathesis polymerization was also synthesized to generate a polymeric COS/H2S donor. A half-life of 280 min was measured for the polymeric donor. Endothelial cell proliferation studies revealed an enhanced rate of proliferation for cells treated with the NTA over untreated controls.
Controlled Polymerization of N-Substituted Glycine <i>N</i>-Thiocarboxyanhydrides Initiated by Rare Earth Borohydrides toward Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Polypeptoids
作者:Xinfeng Tao、Yangwei Deng、Zhiquan Shen、Jun Ling
DOI:10.1021/ma501131t
日期:2014.9.23
N-substituted glycine N-thiocarboxyanhydrides (NTAs) are alternative monomers to prepare polypeptoids with large-scale producing potential compared to the corresponding N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs) due to their easily synthetic approach and stability during purification and storage. Novel monomer N-butylglycine NTA (NBG-NTA) has been synthesized and well characterized for the first time. Rare earth borohydrides [RE(BH4)(3)(THF)(3), RE = Sc, Y, La, Nd, Dy, and Lit] have been first applied in the polymerization of sarcosine NTA (Sar-NTA) and NBG-NTA to achieve high molecular weight (MW) hydrophilic and hydrophobic polypeptoids. Polysarcosines (PSars), poly(N-butylglycine)s (PNBGs), and their copolymers with high yields, high MWs, and moderate MW distributions are synthesized at 60 degrees by using RE(BH4)(3)(THF)(3) initiators. MWs of polypeptoids are controlled by feed molar ratios. For instance, PSar with an absolute M-n, of 27.7 kDa (DP = 390) and PDI of 1.14 is produced successfully from Sar-NTA. Thermoresponsive random copolypeptoids poly(sarcosine-r-N-butylglycine)s [P(Sar-r-NBG)s] have reversible phase transitions (cloud point temperature) in aqueous solution and minimal cytotoxicity comparable to PEG and PSar, which is promising in various biomedical and biotechnological applications. Thermal properties of homo- and co-polypeptoids are investigated by TGA and DSC measurements.
Polymersomes with aggregation-induced emission based on amphiphilic block copolypeptoids
作者:Xinfeng Tao、Hui Chen、Sylvain Trépout、Jiayu Cen、Jun Ling、Min-Hui Li
DOI:10.1039/c9cc07501a
日期:——
Fluorescent and biocompatible polymersomes based on the amphiphilic block copolypeptoid P(TPE-NAG)-b-PSar are promising for bio-imaging and drug delivery applications.