Short Soluble Coumarin Crosslinkers for Light-Controlled Release of Cells and Proteins from Hydrogels
作者:Caroline de Gracia Lux、Jacques Lux、Guillaume Collet、Sha He、Minnie Chan、Jason Olejniczak、Alexandra Foucault-Collet、Adah Almutairi
DOI:10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00950
日期:2015.10.12
Materials that degrade or dissociate in response to low power light promise to enable on-demand, precisely localized delivery of drugs or bioactive molecules in living systems. Such applications remain elusive because few materials respond to wavelengths that appreciably penetrate tissues. The photocage bromohydroxycoumarin (Bhc) is efficiently cleaved upon low-power ultraviolet (UV) and near-infrared (NIR) irradiation through one- or two-photon excitation, respectively. We have designed and synthesized a short Bhc-bearing crosslinker to create light-degradable hydrogels and nanogels. Our crosslinker breaks by intramolecular cyclization in a manner inspired by the naturally occurring ornithine lactamization, in response to UV and NIR light, enabling rapid degradation of polyacrylamide gels and release of small hydrophilic payloads such as an ∼10 nm model protein and murine mesenchymal stem cells, with no background leakage.
能够响应低功率光降解或解离的材料有望实现对药物或生物活性分子在活体系统中按需、精确的局部递送。然而,这类应用仍然难以实现,因为很少有材料能够响应足以穿透组织的波长。光笼溴羟基香豆素(Bhc)通过单光子或双光子激发,能够分别在低功率紫外线(UV)和近红外线(NIR)照射下有效裂解。我们设计并合成了一个含有Bhc的短链交联剂,以创建光可降解的水凝胶和纳米凝胶。我们的交联剂在UV和NIR光的激发下,通过内分子环化方式(灵感源自天然存在的鸟氨酸内酰胺化过程)发生断裂,从而实现聚丙烯酰胺凝胶的快速降解以及对小型亲水性载荷(如约10纳米大小的模型蛋白质和鼠源间充质干细胞)的释放,且无背景泄漏现象。