TY - JOUR
T1 - Facile preparation of well-defined AB>2 Y-shaped miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer via the combination of ring-opening polymerization and click chemistry
AU - Rao, Jingyi
AU - Zhang, Yanfeng
AU - Zhang, Jingyan
AU - Liu, Shiyong
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - Well-defined AB2 Y-shaped miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer, PZLL-β-(PBLG)2, was synthesized via a combination of ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of α-amino acid N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) and click chemistry, where PZLL is poly(ε-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-lysine) and PBLG is poly(y-benzyl-L-glutamate). First, two types of primary-amine-containing initiators, N-aminoethyl 3,5-bis(propargyloxyl)-benzamide and 3-azidopropylamine, were synthesized and employed for the ROP of NCA, leading to the formation of dialkynyl-terminated PZLL and azide-terminated PBLG, dialkynyl-PZLL and PBLG-N3, respectively. The subsequent copper(I)-catalyzed cycloaddition reaction between dialkynyl-PZLL and slightly excess PBLG-N3 led to facile preparation of PZLL-b-(PBLG)2 Y-shaped miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer. The excess PBLG-N3 was scavenged off by reacting with alkynyl-functionalized Wang resin. The obtained Y-shaped miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer was characterized by gel permeation chromatograph (GPC), Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FF-IR), and 1H NMR. Moreover, after the hydrolysis of protecting benzyl and benzyloxycarbonyl groups of PZLL-b-(PBLG)2, water-soluble pH-responsive Y-shaped miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer, PLL-b-(PLGA)2, was obtained, where PLL is poly(L-lysine) and PLGA is poly(L-glutamic acid). It can self-assemble into PLGA-core micelles at acidic pH and PLL-core micelles at alkaline pH, accompanied with the coil-to-helix transition of PLGA and PLL sequences, respectively. The spontaneous pH-responsive supramolecular assembly of PLL-b-(PLGA)2 miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer has been investigated via a combination of 1H NMR, laser light scattering (LLS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy.
AB - Well-defined AB2 Y-shaped miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer, PZLL-β-(PBLG)2, was synthesized via a combination of ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of α-amino acid N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) and click chemistry, where PZLL is poly(ε-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-lysine) and PBLG is poly(y-benzyl-L-glutamate). First, two types of primary-amine-containing initiators, N-aminoethyl 3,5-bis(propargyloxyl)-benzamide and 3-azidopropylamine, were synthesized and employed for the ROP of NCA, leading to the formation of dialkynyl-terminated PZLL and azide-terminated PBLG, dialkynyl-PZLL and PBLG-N3, respectively. The subsequent copper(I)-catalyzed cycloaddition reaction between dialkynyl-PZLL and slightly excess PBLG-N3 led to facile preparation of PZLL-b-(PBLG)2 Y-shaped miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer. The excess PBLG-N3 was scavenged off by reacting with alkynyl-functionalized Wang resin. The obtained Y-shaped miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer was characterized by gel permeation chromatograph (GPC), Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FF-IR), and 1H NMR. Moreover, after the hydrolysis of protecting benzyl and benzyloxycarbonyl groups of PZLL-b-(PBLG)2, water-soluble pH-responsive Y-shaped miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer, PLL-b-(PLGA)2, was obtained, where PLL is poly(L-lysine) and PLGA is poly(L-glutamic acid). It can self-assemble into PLGA-core micelles at acidic pH and PLL-core micelles at alkaline pH, accompanied with the coil-to-helix transition of PLGA and PLL sequences, respectively. The spontaneous pH-responsive supramolecular assembly of PLL-b-(PLGA)2 miktoarm star polypeptide copolymer has been investigated via a combination of 1H NMR, laser light scattering (LLS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy.
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U2 - 10.1021/bm800462q
DO - 10.1021/bm800462q
M3 - Article
C2 - 18611048
AN - SCOPUS:55049116763
VL - 9
SP - 2586
EP - 2593
JO - Biomacromolecules
JF - Biomacromolecules
SN - 1525-7797
IS - 10
ER -