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  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Nanomedicine

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  • Biodegradable polymer-based therapeutics are crucial for delivering bioactive compounds.
  • Existing materials require optimization for circulation, pharmacokinetics, biodegradability, and excretion.
  • There is a need for adaptable platforms to create advanced drug delivery systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an adaptable polymerization platform for synthesizing long-circulating, stimulus-sensitive, and biodegradable biomaterials.
  • To create polymer-drug conjugates for enhanced therapeutic outcomes and targeted delivery.
  • To validate the platform's utility with an anticancer drug, pirarubicin.

Main Methods:

  • Designed and synthesized four chain transfer agents (CTAs) for reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization.
  • Synthesized hydrolytically biodegradable block copolymers with tunable degradation rates (5 hours to 21 days).
  • Conjugated pirarubicin (THP) to polymer biomaterials via a pH-sensitive hydrazone bond.

Main Results:

  • Controlled polymerization achieved tunable hydrolytic degradation half-lives.
  • Polymer conjugates showed superior antitumor efficacy compared to linear conjugates.
  • Biodegradable systems significantly increased THP's blood circulation half-life (almost two-fold).

Conclusions:

  • The developed platform enables the synthesis of advanced biodegradable polymer biomaterials for drug delivery.
  • The platform allows for tuning biodegradability, stimuli-sensitive drug conjugation, and optimized pharmacokinetics.
  • This approach facilitates the creation of targeted or theranostic polymer conjugates for improved therapy.