Lipopolycationic Telomers for Gene Transfer: Synthesis and Evaluation of Their in Vitro Transfection Efficiency
作者:Géraldine Verderone、Nathalie Van Craynest、Otmane Boussif、Catherine Santaella、Rainer Bischoff、Hanno V. J. Kolbe、Pierre Vierling
DOI:10.1021/jm9911579
日期:2000.4.6
We report on the synthesis of a series of lipopolyamine telomers I-14,n, I-18,n, and II-18,n and on their in vitro gene-transfer capability. Their structure consists of a polyamine polar moiety, including n primary amine functions (from 1 to 70), connected to a hydrophobic moiety, including two hydrocarbon C14 or C18 chains, through a mercaptopropanoyl or mercaptoglyceryl unit and an amide or ether function. They were obtained by telomerization of N-(2-[(BOC)aminoethyl]})acrylamide with N,N-ditetradecyl- and N,N-dioctadecylpropanamide-3-thiol and rac-1,2-dioctadecyloxypropane-3-thiol, respectively, then BOC deprotection. For NIP ratios (N = number of telomer amine equivalents; P = number of DNA phosphates) from 0.8 to 10, these lipopolyamines condensed DNA, with or without the use of DOPE, forming lipopolyplexes or teloplexes of mean sizes less than zoo nm. Some trends, structure-activity and structure-toxicity relationships, were established to achieve both highest in vitro transfection levels and cell viability. Thus, DNA formulations based on telomers I-14,20 and I-18,20 and for NIP ratios lower than 5 led to the most efficient teloplex formulations for plasmid delivery to lung epithelial A549 cells.