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Published on: September 6, 2012
Poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone-co-vinyl alcohol), a versatile amphiphilic polymeric scaffold for multivalent probes
Pavel I Kitov1, Yohei Kotsuchibashi, Eugenia Paszkiewicz
1Alberta Glycomics Centre, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta , Edmonton Alberta, Canada.
Abstract:
A convenient scaffold based on poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone-co-vinyl alcohol) is proposed for presenting ligands in multivalent format. This amphiphilic polymer supports synthesis of conjugates in both organic and aqueous media, permits enzymatic processing of the ligand precursor, and, finally, offers a choice of formats for evaluation of biological activity either as a soluble inhibitor or as a capture reagent after deposition on a hydrophobic surface or standard microtiter plates.

