Viral mimicking ternary polyplexes: A reduction-controlled hierarchical unpacking vector for gene delivery

Yiyan He, Yu Nie, Gang Cheng, Li Xie, Youqing Shen, Zhongwei Gu

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Abstract

Reduction-controlled hierarchical unpacking is proposed for the development of virus-mimicking gene carriers. Disulfide-bond-modified hyaluronic acid (HA) is deposited onto the surface of diselenide-conjugated oligoethylenimine/DNA polyplexes to form DNA/OEI-SeSex/HA-SS-COOH (DOS) polyplexes. The cleavage of the disulfide and diselenide bonds is triggered by the gradient GSH level at the tumor site and inside the cells. The transfection efficiency of DOS show significant enhancement over DNA/poly(ethylene imine) (DP) in vitro and in vivo.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1534-1540
Number of pages7
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume26
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Mar 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • gene delivery
  • hierarchical unpacking
  • hyaluronic acid
  • oligoethyleneimine
  • polyplexes
  • reduction control

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