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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 32, Issue 8, Pages 654-659Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201000804
Keywords
biological applications of polymers; PEG(meth)acrylate; polymer conjugates; reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT); siRNA
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- Australian Research Council (ARC) [DP 0770818]
- Sloan Foundation
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A thiol-modified siRNA targeting the enhanced green fluorescence protein (eGFP) gene was conjugated with RAFT-synthesized, pyridyl disulfide-functional poly(PEG methyl ether acrylate) s (p(PEGA) s). siRNA-p(PEGA) conjugates demonstrated significantly enhanced in vitro serum stability and nuclease resistance compared to the unmodified and thiol-modified siRNA. The complexes of siRNA-p(PEGA) conjugates with a fusogenic peptide, KALA ((+)/(-) = 2) inhibited the protein expression approximately 28-fold more than the KALA complex of the unmodified siRNA. The protein inhibition caused by siRNA-p(PEGA)-KALA complexes (56 +/- 5%-58 +/- 3% of the fluorescence expressed in non-treated cells) was comparable to the effect of the unmodified siRNA-lipofectamine complex (77 +/- 7%).
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