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Anionic Polymerization of an Amphiphilic Copolymer for Preparation of Block Copolymer Micelles Stabilized by π-π Stacking Interactions
Published on: October 10, 2016
Specific Drug Formulation Additives: Revealing the Impact of Architecture and Block Length Ratio
Sebastian Wieczorek1, Timm Schwaar1, Mathias O Senge2
1Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Organic Synthesis of Functional Systems, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
Combining poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) with sequence-defined peptides in PEG-peptide conjugates offers opportunities to realize next-generation drug formulation additives for overcoming undesired pharmacological profiles of difficult small molecule drugs. The tailored peptide segments provide sequence-specific, noncovalent drug binding, and the hydrophilic PEG block renders the complexes water soluble. On the basis of a peptide sequence known to bind the photosensitizer m-tetra(hydroxyphenyl)chlorin (m-THPC) for photodynamic cancer therapy, a set of different conjugate architectures is synthesized and studied. Variations in PEG block length and amplification of the peptidic binding domain of PEG-peptide conjugates are used to fine tune critical parameters for hosting m-THPC, such as drug payload capacities, aggregation sizes, and drug release and activation kinetics.
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