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Jeong, Y.I. et al.

Cellular recognition of paclitaxel-loaded polymeric nanoparticles composed of poly(gamma-benzyl L-glutamate) and poly(ethylene glycol) diblock copolymer endcapped with galactose moiety.

Poly(gamma-benzyl L-glutamate) (PBLG)/poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) diblock copolymer endcapped with galactose moiety (abbreviated as GEG) was synthesized and characterized for study of liver-specific targeting. From dynamic light scattering measurement, particle sizes of copolymeric nanoparticles were decreased with an increase of PEG in the copolymer. The morphology of GEG-3 nanoparticles observed by transmission electron micrograph was observed as almost spherical shapes and ranged about 50-300 nm. From the structural characterization using 1H nuclear magnetic resonance, both characteristic peaks of PBLG and PEG were visible in CDCl3 but the characteristic peaks of PBLG were invisible in D2O, indicating that GEG block copolymers are found to the core-shell type nanoparticles in water with PBLG innercore and PEG outershell, exposing that galactose moiety of GEG block copolymers are outerwards oriented on the nanoparticle surfaces. By galactose-specific aggregation test of particles using beta-galactose specific lectin, and flow cytometry measurement, specific interaction between asialoglycoprotein receptors ( ASGPR) of HepG2, human hepatoma cell line, and galactose moieties of the GEG nanoparticles was confirmed. From cell cytotoxicity test, HepG2 cells with ASGPR are more sensitive to paclitaxel (TX)-loaded nanoparticles than free TX whereas, P388 cells, murine leukemia cell line, and SK-Hep 01, human hepatoma cell line, without ASGPR is less sensitive to TX-loaded nanoparticles than free TX, suggesting that specific interaction between HepG2 cells and galactose moiety of the nanoparticles occurred.[1]

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Cellular recognition of paclitaxel-loaded polymeric nanoparticles composed of poly(gamma-benzyl L-glutamate) and poly(ethylene glycol) diblock copolymer endcapped with galactose moiety. Jeong, Y.I., Seo, S.J., Park, I.K., Lee, H.C., Kang, I.C., Akaike, T., Cho, C.S. International journal of pharmaceutics. (2005) [Pubmed]

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