液/固界面多肽分子组装精细结构的扫描隧道显微镜研究

介绍了与蛋白构象病相关的淀粉样多肽分子组装结构的研究进展.综述了在固体、溶液以及界面等不同状态下多肽分子组装结构的表征方法,对于扫描隧道显微技术(STM)在解析多肽分子界面组装结构方面的研究进展进行了重点评述,主要包括在液/固界面上的多肽分子组装结构的精细特征,界面诱导的多肽构象转变,调节分子、染料等与多肽组装结构的相互作用模式和位点识别等.     

pH-responsive polymersome based on PMCP-<Emphasis Type="Italic">b</Emphasis>-PDPA as a drug delivery system to enhance cellular internalization and intracellular drug release

Choline phosphate (CP) as a novel zwitterion possesses specific and excellent properties compared with phosphorylcholine (PC), as well as its polymer, such as poly(2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl choline phosphate) (PMCP), has been studied extensively due to its unique characteristics of rapid cellular internalization via the sepcial quadrupole interactions with the cell membrane. Recently, we reported a novel PMCP-based drug delivery system to enhance the cellular internalization where the drug was conjugated to the polymer via reversible acylhydrazone bond. Herein, to make full use of this feature of PMCP, we synthesized the diblock copolymer poly(2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl choline phosphate)-b-poly(2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PMCP-b-PDPA), which could self-assemble into polymersomes with hydrophilic PMCP corona and hydrophobic membrane wall in mild conditions when the pH value is ≥ 6.4. It has been found that these polymersomes can be successfully used to load anticancer drug Dox with the loading content of about 11.30 wt%. After the polymersome is rapidly internalized by the cell with the aid of PMCP, the loaded drug can be burst-released in endosomes since PDPA segment is protonated at low pH environment, which renders PDPA to transfer from hydrophobic to hydrophilic, and the subsequent polymersomes collapse thoroughly. Ultimately, the “proton sponge” effect of PDPA chain can further accelerate the Dox to escape from endosome to cytoplasm to exert cytostatic effects. Meanwhile, the cell viability assays showed that the Dox-loaded polymersomes exhibited significant inhibitory effect on tumor cells, indicating its great potential as a targeted intracellular delivery system with high efficiency.