DPD simulations and experimental study on reduction-sensitive polymeric micelles self-assembled from PCL-SS-PPEGMA for doxorubicin controlled release.
Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces
; 204: 111797, 2021 Aug.
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| ID: mdl-33957490
ABSTRACT
Delivery of anticancer drugs by amphiphilic polymeric micelles with disulfide bonds as the reduction-responsive groups has potential application in the field of drug-controlled release. In this study, three disulfide-linked polycaprolactone-b-polyethylene glycol methyl ether methacrylate (PCL-SS-PPEGMA) were synthesized and confirmed by 1H NMR and GPC, and then used for doxorubicin (DOX) delivery. The CMC values of the three PCL-SS-PPEGMA micelles were low (0.71-4.56â¯mg/L), indicative of the good stability of micelles in aqueous solution. The drug loading content (LC) and encapsulation efficiency (EE), together with the DOX accelerated release profiles were determined, with good drug loading capacity and well drug-controlled release performance. And to explore the mesoscopic behavior of reduction-responsive drug-loaded polymeric micelles, by using a dedicated disulfide bond-breaking model and script, dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations were carried out on the three PCL-SS-PPEGMA polymers. Their self-assembled behavior, formation of DOX-loaded micelles, the disulfide bond-breaking process, as well as the DOX reduction-responsive release process were simulated and assessed. Comparing the DPD simulation results with the experimental data, we found that they were in good agreement, effectively demonstrating that the DPD simulation method developed can provide a practical mesoscopic approach for the reduction-responsive drug-loaded polymeric micelles that involved the cleavage of dynamic covalent bonds.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Doxorubicin
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Micelles
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces
Journal subject:
QUIMICA
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article