Folic acid conjugated mPEG-PEI600 as an efficient non-viral vector for targeted nucleic acid delivery

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• 作者：Zhenhua Xu^a ; ^b ; ^d ; Jiefu Jin^a ; Leo K.S. Siu^a ; Hong Yao^b ; ^d ; Johnny Sze^b ; Hongzhe Sun^a ; Hsiang-fu Kung^d ; Wai Sang Poon^b ; Samuel S.M. Ng^a ; ^c ; ^ssmng@hku.hk ; Marie C. Lin^a ; ^b ; ^{mcllin@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk}
• 关键词：Polymer ; Polyethylenimine ; Tumor gene delivery ; PEG
• 刊名：International Journal of Pharmaceutics
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：24_03785173
• 类别：pha
• 出版时间：15 April, 2012
• 卷：426
• 期：1-2
• 页码：182-192
• 文件大小：2115 K

摘要

In this study we describe a novel polymer, mPPS-FA, synthesized as a potential gene transfer vector. To complete mPPS-FA, folic acid was conjugated to a backbone (named mPPS) consisting of a copolymer of methyl PEG-2000, PEI-600, and sebacoyl chloride. ¹H NMR, FT-IR, and UV spectroscopy were used to characterize the structure of mPPS-FA. It was revealed that mPPS-FA holds the ability to bind plasmid DNA yielding positively charged particles (polyplexes). Dynamic light scattering (DLS) and TEM techniques were used to study the size and morphology of the formed mPPS-FA/DNA nanocomplexes. The mPPS-FA/DNA nanoparticles exhibited low cytotoxicity as transfection of B16-F0, U87MG, CHO-1, and Ho-8910 cells produced >80%viability indicating low cytotoxicity of the polymer. The ability of mPPS-FA to deliver EGFP plasmid to melanoma B16-F0, U87, CHO-1, Ho-8910, and A549 cells was investigated in vitro as compared to the lipid-based transfection agent Lipofectamine鈩?000 and Linear PEI 22kDa (L-PEI 22kDa). We found that mPPS-FA/DNA complexes yielded the highest GFP transfection efficiency in B16-F0, U87, CHO-1, and Ho-8910 cells, which all highly express folate receptors (FR), at an mPPS-FA/DNA ratio (w/w) of 15. Furthermore, the transfection of mPPS-FA/DNA complexes in CHO-1 cells could be competitively blocked by free folic acid molecules. In contrast, in low FR expressing A549 cells, mPPS-FA showed similar low transfection efficiency as mPPS. Taken together, mPPS-FA showed the highest efficiency in vitro and the potential to be developed as a nonviral gene carrier.