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Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Crosslinked Multi-Armed Poly(l-Lysine) with Encapsulating Capacity and Antimicrobial Activity for the Potential Treatment of Infection-Involved Multifactorial Diseases
With the development of modern medical technology, common diseases usually can be treated by traditional medicines and their formulation, while diseases with multiple etiologies still remain a great challenge in clinic. Nanoformulation was widely explored to address this problem. However, due to lim...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7022689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31935837 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12010047 |
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author | Lu, Chao Wen, Ting Zheng, Maochao Liu, Daojun Quan, Guilan Pan, Xin Wu, Chuanbin |
author_facet | Lu, Chao Wen, Ting Zheng, Maochao Liu, Daojun Quan, Guilan Pan, Xin Wu, Chuanbin |
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description | With the development of modern medical technology, common diseases usually can be treated by traditional medicines and their formulation, while diseases with multiple etiologies still remain a great challenge in clinic. Nanoformulation was widely explored to address this problem. However, due to limited drug loading space of nanocarriers, co-delivery strategy usually fails to achieve sufficient loading of multiple drugs simultaneously. In this research, we explored the potential of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) crosslinked alternating copolymers MPLL-alt-PEG as both an anionic drug carrier and antimicrobial agent. The high cationic charge density of multi-armed poly(l-lysine) (MPLL) segments in MPLL-alt-PEG could endow the electrostatic encapsulation of anionic model drugs through the formation of polyion complex micelles with a MPLL/drug complex core and crosslinked PEG outer shell, enabling pH-sensitive drug release. Meanwhile, the MPLL-alt-PEG copolymer exhibits a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activities against various clinically relevant microorganisms with low hemolytic activity. Studies on antibacterial mechanism revealed that MPLL-alt-PEG attacked bacteria through the membrane disruption mechanism which is similar to that of typical antimicrobial peptides. Taken together, the present study shed light on the possibility of endowing a polymeric carrier with therapeutic effect and thus offered a promising strategy for achieving a comprehensive treatment of bacterial infection-involved multifactorial diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-70226892020-03-09 Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Crosslinked Multi-Armed Poly(l-Lysine) with Encapsulating Capacity and Antimicrobial Activity for the Potential Treatment of Infection-Involved Multifactorial Diseases Lu, Chao Wen, Ting Zheng, Maochao Liu, Daojun Quan, Guilan Pan, Xin Wu, Chuanbin Pharmaceutics Article With the development of modern medical technology, common diseases usually can be treated by traditional medicines and their formulation, while diseases with multiple etiologies still remain a great challenge in clinic. Nanoformulation was widely explored to address this problem. However, due to limited drug loading space of nanocarriers, co-delivery strategy usually fails to achieve sufficient loading of multiple drugs simultaneously. In this research, we explored the potential of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) crosslinked alternating copolymers MPLL-alt-PEG as both an anionic drug carrier and antimicrobial agent. The high cationic charge density of multi-armed poly(l-lysine) (MPLL) segments in MPLL-alt-PEG could endow the electrostatic encapsulation of anionic model drugs through the formation of polyion complex micelles with a MPLL/drug complex core and crosslinked PEG outer shell, enabling pH-sensitive drug release. Meanwhile, the MPLL-alt-PEG copolymer exhibits a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activities against various clinically relevant microorganisms with low hemolytic activity. Studies on antibacterial mechanism revealed that MPLL-alt-PEG attacked bacteria through the membrane disruption mechanism which is similar to that of typical antimicrobial peptides. Taken together, the present study shed light on the possibility of endowing a polymeric carrier with therapeutic effect and thus offered a promising strategy for achieving a comprehensive treatment of bacterial infection-involved multifactorial diseases. MDPI 2020-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7022689/ /pubmed/31935837 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12010047 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lu, Chao Wen, Ting Zheng, Maochao Liu, Daojun Quan, Guilan Pan, Xin Wu, Chuanbin Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Crosslinked Multi-Armed Poly(l-Lysine) with Encapsulating Capacity and Antimicrobial Activity for the Potential Treatment of Infection-Involved Multifactorial Diseases |
title | Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Crosslinked Multi-Armed Poly(l-Lysine) with Encapsulating Capacity and Antimicrobial Activity for the Potential Treatment of Infection-Involved Multifactorial Diseases |
title_full | Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Crosslinked Multi-Armed Poly(l-Lysine) with Encapsulating Capacity and Antimicrobial Activity for the Potential Treatment of Infection-Involved Multifactorial Diseases |
title_fullStr | Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Crosslinked Multi-Armed Poly(l-Lysine) with Encapsulating Capacity and Antimicrobial Activity for the Potential Treatment of Infection-Involved Multifactorial Diseases |
title_full_unstemmed | Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Crosslinked Multi-Armed Poly(l-Lysine) with Encapsulating Capacity and Antimicrobial Activity for the Potential Treatment of Infection-Involved Multifactorial Diseases |
title_short | Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Crosslinked Multi-Armed Poly(l-Lysine) with Encapsulating Capacity and Antimicrobial Activity for the Potential Treatment of Infection-Involved Multifactorial Diseases |
title_sort | poly(ethylene glycol) crosslinked multi-armed poly(l-lysine) with encapsulating capacity and antimicrobial activity for the potential treatment of infection-involved multifactorial diseases |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7022689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31935837 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12010047 |
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