Macromolecular Bioscience 2015-11-01

Crosslinked Polypropylenimine Dendrimers With Bioreducible Linkages for Gene Delivery Systems and Their Reductive Degradation Behaviors.

Gyeong Jin Lee, Kitae Ryu, Kyunghwan Kim, Ji-Yeong Choi, Tae-Il Kim

Index: Macromol. Biosci. 15 , 1595-604, (2015)

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Abstract

Crosslinked bioreducible polypropylenimine-cystaminebisacrylamides (PPI-CBAs) were synthesized for gene delivery systems. They formed nano-sized polyplexes with high stability even in reducing condition probably due to the re-crosslinking. PPI-CBAs displayed high transfection efficiency comparable to PEI25k in serum condition. However, cytotoxicity increase, glutathione (GSH) decrease, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) increase were observed in cells with the elevation of PPI-CBAs concentration and crosslinking degree. These results suggest that the cytotoxicity of bioreducible polymers may be closely related with their structures and that reduction of GSH by degradation of re-crosslinked bioreducible polymers and the following increase of ROS may induce cytotoxicity by oxidative stress. © 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Related Compounds

  • Ethidium bromide
  • Sodium acetate
  • Hydrochloric acid
  • Methanol
  • Sulfur
  • Trometamol
  • Glutathione
  • Pyridaben
  • Thiazolyl Blue

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