| 학회 |
한국고분자학회 |
| 학술대회 |
2007년 봄 (04/12 ~ 04/13, 제주 ICC) |
| 권호 |
32권 1호 |
| 발표분야 |
나노바이오기술용 고분자(의료용 고분자 부문위원회) |
| 제목 |
Intracytoplasmic Drug Delivery Using pH-Sensitive Self-assembled Nanoparticles |
| 초록 |
Nano-sized vesicular systems (nanoparticles), ranging from 10 nm to 1,000 nm in size, have potential applications as drug delivery systems. Successful clinical applications require the efficient intracellular delivery of drug-loaded nanoparticles. Here we describe N-acetyl histidine-conjugated glycol chitosan (NAcHis-GC) self-assembled nanoparticles as a promising system for intracytoplasmic delivery of drugs. Because N-acetyl histidine (NAcHis) is hydrophobic at neutral pH, the conjugates formed self-assembled nanoparticles with mean diameters of 150250 nm. In slightly acidic environments, such as those in endosomes, the nanoparticles were disassembled due to breakdown of the hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance by the protonation of the imidazole group of NAcHis. Cellular internalization and drug release of the pH-sensitive self-assembled nanoparticles were investigated by flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. NAcHis-GC nanoparticles internalized by adsorptive endocytosis were exocytosed or localized in endosomes. The amount of exocytosed nanoparticles was dependent on the pre-incubation time prior to removal of free nanoparticles from the culture media. Flow cytometry and confocal microscopy showed that NAcHis-GC nanoparticles released drugs into the cytosol and cell cycle analysis demonstrated that paclitaxel-incorporated NAcHis-GC nanoparticles were effective in inducing arrest of cell growth. |
| 저자 |
Yeon Hee Yun1, Ji Hye Kim2, Yong Woo Cho1
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| 소속 |
1Department of Bionanotechnology and Department of Chemical Engineering, 2Hanyang Univ. |
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