环糊精相关的超分子自组装最新进展

对基于环糊精的超分子自组装的最新研究进展作了综述.详细介绍了环糊精为轮、高分子为轴的聚轮烷的制备及其修饰的方法,同时还介绍了无高分子参与的环糊精的超分子自组装高分子化合物的制备.并且对这些超分子在智能材料、生物医药和聚合催化等方面的应用进行了介绍.     

环糊精超分子聚合物在药物/基因递送载体领域的研究进展

超分子聚合物通常以非共价键作为构筑驱动力,其结构具有动态可逆的特点,在新型响应性聚合物材料中具有突出优势。环糊精可通过主客体识别作用与客体分子如二茂铁、偶氮苯、金刚烷、苯环等形成包合,以此构筑的超分子组装体展现出丰富的自组装-解组装特性、刺激响应性、较低的细胞毒性和较好的生物相容性,有望在药物/基因载体领域得到应用。本文从环糊精超分子聚合物的生物医用出发,着重对近年来环糊精超分子聚合物载体在药物控制释放、基因转染以及药物/基因共递送三方面的研究进展进行了总结和评述,并在此基础上展望了环糊精超分子聚合物的研究方向和发展趋势。     

生物医用类环糊精/聚合物(准)聚轮烷

环糊精及其衍生物具有“内疏水、外亲水”的特殊分子结构,可与许多客体分子包结形成包合物。利用环糊精与聚合物的包结作用构建稳定、结构可控并具有广泛应用前景的生物医用材料是材料及医学界研究的焦点之一。本文介绍了环糊精基(准)聚轮烷的概念及其组装驱动力,同时围绕由环糊精和聚合物组装形成的(准)聚轮烷在生物医用方面的研究包括药物载体(如超分子凝胶、超分子胶束、超分子纳米囊泡、药物键合(准)聚轮烷、刺激响应型(准)聚轮烷等)、基因载体、多重识别与靶向、形状记忆材料及其它相关领域工作进展作一概述。     

环糊精包合作用诱导聚合物自组装的研究进展

将主客体识别与聚合物自组装相结合,利用环糊精对聚合物的包合作用在溶液中诱导聚合物组装形成结构可控的纳米粒子,形成有别于基于环糊精/聚合物包合作用形成的结晶粉末和超分子水凝胶的新型材料.本文介绍了这种诱导组装方案的研究背景及最新的研究成果,综述了诱导组装的原理、特点及影响因素.研究表明,由这种方案制备的聚合物纳米粒子具有超分子动态可逆的特征,进而显示出对温度和pH等敏感的性质.该类环糊精包合作用诱导组装的聚合物超分子聚集体在生物医学材料方面具有潜在的应用价值,如用作药物和基因的可控传递释放载体.     

“线性-超支化”超分子聚合物的制备及光响应性自组装行为研究

报道了一种"线性-超支化"超分子聚合物的制备、自组装及其光响应性解组装过程.分别通过可控阴离子开环聚合(ROMBP)和原子转移自由基聚合(ATRP)的方法,制备了以β-环糊精为中心的超支化聚缩水甘油醚(CD-g-HPG)和一端带有偶氮苯基团的线性聚苯乙烯(AZO-PS).两者通过β-环糊精和偶氮苯基团之间的主客体识别作用形成"线性-超支化"超分子聚合物PS-b-HPG.该聚合物可以在水中自组装形成囊泡结构.通过紫外滴定法表征了CD-g-HPG和AZO-PS之间的主客体复合能力,通过SEM和TEM表征了组装体的形貌.最后基于偶氮苯在紫外光照射下发生顺反异构化的性质,用紫外光照射组装体成功实现了组装体的解组装.     

环糊精超分子组装体的研究进展

环糊精是由若干个D-吡喃葡萄糖单元通过α-1,4-糖苷键连接而成的环状低聚糖,具有一个亲水性的外表面和一个疏水性的空腔。利用主客体相互作用,环糊精及其衍生物能够选择性地与大小匹配的疏水性客体分子形成各种超分子包合物。本文概述了环糊精的结构与性质,并介绍了近年来国内外以环糊精为基础的纳米粒子、水凝胶等超分子组装体的设计原理、作用机制、刺激响应及应用特点,并对环糊精超分子组装体的前景进行了展望。     

磺酸化β-环糊精与吉西他滨药物分子键合及组装

基于环糊精的主-客体键合及其组装行为是超分子化学领域的研究重点.本文利用核磁共振、圆二色光谱、分子模拟以及微量热滴定等方法探究了磺酸化?-环糊精(1)和吉西他滨(2)的键合模式、键合常数以及热力学参数.核磁等实验说明,吉西他滨客体分子中的嘧啶碱基环从大口端进入到环糊精的空腔.微量热滴定数据表明该键合过程是焓驱动过程,并且伴随着不利的熵损失,说明键合过程的驱动力主要来自于疏水、氢键以及范德华相互作用.进而通过丁达尔、光散射以及电镜实验,表明环糊精与药物分子形成的包合物1·2能够有效诱导十六烷基三甲基溴化铵(CTAB)聚集形成球形纳米超分子组装体.该三元超分子组装体在设计和制备新型药物传输载体方面具有潜在的应用价值.     

基于环糊精构筑的镧系稀土发光超分子组装体

镧系元素由于其优异的发光特性,如长寿命的激发态、尖锐的线状发射带和较大的Stokes位移等,在发光材料中表现出极大的优势,被越来越多地应用于高级功能发光材料的设计中.而环糊精作为第二代超分子主体分子具有易于功能化修饰以及特异性结合发光客体等优势而被广泛地用于构筑发光材料、荧光传感等超分子体系.作者从基于环糊精的镧系稀土配位化合物超分子组装体的构筑出发,对不同镧系环糊精发光材料的最新研究进展进行综述,为开发构筑新型多功能化镧系发光材料提供参考.最后,提出了稀土发光材料目前所遇到的科学问题,并对基于环糊精稀土发光材料的发展方向进行了展望.     

固相纳米孔对核酸组装的“免标记、均相”表征和应用探索

随着核酸自组装领域的飞速发展,除了作为遗传信息的载体外,核酸成为了一种具有高操作自由度和无限可能性的功能材料.基于核酸自组装原理的DNA纳米技术凭借其强大的可编辑性已经广泛应用于生物传感、纳米材料工程、医学诊疗以及分子计算机等领域.纳米孔作为一种新兴的单分子分析技术具有高分辨、高通量、免标记等特点,近年来在基因测序、分子物理化学性质分析等领域展示出了极大的应用潜力.作为一种新型高分辨表征技术,纳米孔已经在DNA纳米技术研究中崭露头角,被用于原位追踪和分析核酸分子的自组装行为.另一方面,DNA纳米技术也为纳米孔传感所面临的技术瓶颈提供了更多样化的解决思路,如借助功能核酸(Aptamer或DNAzyme)和无酶扩增核酸分子线路实现纳米孔对待测物的特异性增敏检测.本专论旨在通过对近期纳米孔技术与核酸自组装的跨领域研究成果进行系统性回顾,总结并展望纳米孔传感领域内核酸自组装的研究进展,以期为单分子生物分析、信息检索、基因分型和临床诊断等领域提供新思路和新方法.     

2-呋喃甲硫醇修饰环糊精形成互锁式螺旋柱状超分子的自组装行为

利用单-(6-氧-对甲基苯磺酰基)-β-环糊精和2-呋喃甲硫醇反应得到单修饰环糊精, 单[6-硫-6-(2-甲基呋喃)]-β-环糊精. 通过X-ray衍射分析及核磁光谱等方法研究了其在溶液和固态中形成线状超分子的分子自组装行为. 结果表明, 化合物在固态中通过呋喃基团从第二面羟基连续插入到另一个环糊精的空腔, 形成了互锁式螺旋柱状超分子, 而且在溶液中也显示了相似的自组装行为, 其键合常数K及聚合度n分别为450 mol^-1·L和1.9.     

Electrostatic Complementarity Drives Amyloid/Nucleic Acid Co‐Assembly

Proteinaceous plaques associated with neurodegenerative diseases contain many biopolymers including the polyanions glycosaminoglycans and nucleic acids. Polyanion‐induced amyloid fibrillation has been implicated in disease etiology, but structural models for amyloid/nucleic acid co‐assemblies remain limited. Here we constrain nucleic acid/peptide interactions with model peptides that exploit electrostatic complementarity and define a novel amyloid/nucleic acid co‐assembly. The structure provides a model for nucleic acid/amyloid co‐assembly as well as insight into the energetic determinants involved in templating amyloid assembly.     

Electrostatic Complementarity Drives Amyloid/Nucleic Acid Co-Assembly

Proteinaceous plaques associated with neurodegenerative diseases contain many biopolymers including the polyanions glycosaminoglycans and nucleic acids. Polyanion-induced amyloid fibrillation has been implicated in disease etiology, but structural models for amyloid/nucleic acid co-assemblies remain limited. Here we constrain nucleic acid/peptide interactions with model peptides that exploit electrostatic complementarity and define a novel amyloid/nucleic acid co-assembly. The structure provides a model for nucleic acid/amyloid co-assembly as well as insight into the energetic determinants involved in templating amyloid assembly.     

环糊精超分子化学研究的新进展

本文综述了环糊精衍生物的合成及对小分子的识别作用,环糊精在电极表面的自组装以及环糊精与冠醚、杯芳烃识别客体分子的协同作用。     

Control of Biocatalytic Transformations by Programmed DNA Assemblies

This study demonstrates the self‐assembly of inhibitor/enzyme‐tethered nucleic acid fragments or enzyme I‐, enzyme II‐modified nucleic acids into functional nanostructures that lead to the controlled inhibition of the enzyme or the activation of an enzyme cascade. In one system, the anti‐cocaine aptamer subunits are modified with monocarboxy methylene blue (MB⁺) as the inhibitor and with choline oxidase (ChOx). The cocaine‐induced self‐assembly of the aptamer subunits complex results in the inhibition of ChOx by MB⁺. In a further configuration, two nucleic acids of limited complementarity are functionalized at their 3′ and 5′ ends with glucose oxidase (GOx) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP), respectively, or with MB⁺ and ChOx. In the presence of a target DNA sequence, synergistic complementary base‐pairing occurs, thus leading to stable supramolecular Y‐shaped nanostructures of the nucleic acid units. A GOx/HRP bienzyme cascade or the programmed inhibition of ChOx by MB⁺ is demonstrated in the resulting nucleic acid nanostructures. A quantitative theoretical model that describes the nucleic acid assemblies and that results in the inhibition of ChOx by MB⁺ or in the activation of the GOx/HRP cascade, respectively, is provided.     

Tailored Tolane-Perfluorotolane Assembly as Supramolecular Base Pair Replacement in DNA

Arene-fluoroarene interactions offer outstanding possibilities for engineering of supramolecular systems, including nucleic acids. Here, we implement the tolane-perfluorotolane interaction as base pair replacement in DNA. Tolane (THH) and perfluorotolane (TFF) moieties were connected to acyclic backbone units, comprising glycol nucleic acid (GNA) or butyl nucleic acid (BuNA) building blocks, that were incorporated via phosphoramidite chemistry at opposite positions in a DNA duplex. Thermodynamic analyses by UV thermal melting revealed a compelling stabilization by THH/TFF heteropairs only when connected to the BuNA backbone, but not with the shorter GNA linker. Detailed NMR studies confirmed the preference of the BuNA backbone for enhanced polar π-stacking. This work defines how orthogonal supramolecular interactions can be tailored by small constitutional changes in the DNA backbone, and it inspires future studies of arene-fluoroarene-programmed assembly of DNA.     

Lipophilic nucleic acids — A flexible construction kit for organization and functionalization of surfaces

Lipophilic nucleic acids have become a versatile tool for structuring and functionalization of lipid bilayers and biological membranes as well as cargo vehicles to transport and deliver bioactive compounds, like interference RNA, into cells by taking advantage of reversible hybridization with complementary strands. This contribution reviews the different types of conjugates of lipophilic nucleic acids, and their physicochemical and self-assembly properties. Strategies for choosing a nucleic acid, lipophilic modification, and linker are discussed. Interaction with lipid membranes and its stability, dynamic structure and assembly of lipophilic nucleic acids upon embedding into biological membranes are specific points of the review. A large diversity of conjugates including lipophilic peptide nucleic acid and siRNA provides tailored solutions for specific applications in bio- and nanotechnology as well as in cell biology and medicine, as illustrated through some selected examples.     

The HPLC Resolution of Nucleic‐Acid Bases and An a Log Hypoxanthine on R,S‐2‐Hydroxypropyl Derivatized β‐Cyclodextrin Bonded Chiral Stationary Phase Using a Water‐Based Mobile Phase

A HPLC approach using R,S‐2‐hydroxypropyl derivatized β‐cyclodextrin packed column as the stationary phase was developed to resolve five nucleic‐acid bases and an a log hypoxanthine in the reversed‐phase mode. These bases are not only similar in structure but also very close in basicity. However, the resolution can be completed in less than ten minutes and is considered to be better carried out on the R,S‐2‐hydroxypropyl derivatized β‐cyclodextrin phase than that obtained on the native β‐cyclodextrin phase under the same chromatographic conditions. The mechanism involved in the resolution is believed to be inclusion complexation between the analyte and the cavity of cyclodextrin in the reversed‐phase mode. The retention time was found relevant to the size of the analyte. The number of groups on analyte that is available to form hydrogen bonding with hydroxyl groups on CDs also affects the retention scale. Factors of introducing organic acid and base or organic modifier such as methanol to the water‐based mobile phase or increasing their percent ages in the mobile phase decreases the retention time without de grading the resolution significantly.     

pH-programmable DNAzyme nanostructures

Two engineered DNA nanostructures consisting of a nucleic acid functional hairpin and a DNA "tweezers" assembly act as pH-switchable devices for the "ON-OFF" activation/deactivation of the horseradish-peroxidase-mimicking DNAzyme.     

A Combinatorial Approach Based on Nucleic Acid Assembly and Electrostatic Compression for siRNA Delivery

Acombinatorial strategy based on nucleic acid assembly and electrostatic complexation is developed for efficient small interfering ribonucleic acid(siRNA) delivery. In this approach, siRNAs are first loaded into a well-defined nanotube through programmable nucleic acid self-assembly. Compared to small rigid siRNA duplex, the obtained siRNA-bearing nanotube with large architecture is more readily to complex with cationic and ionizable poly(β-amino ester), resulting in the formation of a novel platform for efficient siRNA delivery.     

Capillary electrophoretic enantioseparation of basic drugs using a new single‐isomer cyclodextrin derivative and theoretical study of the chiral recognition mechanism

A novel single‐isomer cyclodextrin derivative, heptakis {2,6‐di‐O‐[3‐(1,3‐dicarboxyl propylamino)‐2‐hydroxypropyl]}‐β‐cyclodextrin (glutamic acid‐β‐cyclodextrin) was synthesized and used as a chiral selector in capillary electrophoresis for the enantioseparation of 12 basic drugs, including terbutaline, clorprenaline, tulobuterol, clenbuterol, procaterol, carvedilol, econazole, miconazole, homatropine methyl bromide, brompheniramine, chlorpheniramine and pheniramine. The primary factors affecting separation efficiency, which include the background electrolyte pH, the concentration of glutamic acid‐β‐cyclodextrin and phosphate buffer concentration, were investigated. Satisfactory enantioseparations were obtained using an uncoated fused‐silica capillary of 50 cm (effective length 40 cm) × 50 μm id with 120 mM phosphate buffer (pH 2.5–4.0) containing 0.5–4.5 mM glutamic acid‐β‐cyclodextrin as background electrolyte. A voltage of 20 kV was applied and the capillary temperature was kept at 20°C. The results proved that glutamic acid‐β‐cyclodextrin was an effective chiral selector for studied 12 basic drugs. Moreover, the possible chiral recognition mechanism of brompheniramine, chlorpheniramine and pheniramine on glutamic acid‐β‐cyclodextrin was investigated using the semi‐empirical Parametric Method 3.