PMID- 29250901 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20181221 LR - 20181221 IS - 1616-5195 (Electronic) IS - 1616-5187 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 1 DP - 2018 Jan TI - Enhanced Intracellular Delivery of siRNA by Controlling ATP-Responsivity of Phenylboronic Acid-Functionalized Polyion Complex Micelles. LID - 10.1002/mabi.201700357 [doi] AB - Intracellular delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) is a long-standing challenge in oligonucleotide therapeutics. Herein, adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-responsive polyion complex micelles assembled from poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(l-lysine) (PEG-PLys) bearing 4-carboxy-3-fluorophenylboronic acid (FPBA) moiety in the PLys side chains (FPBA micelle) for the delivery of cholesterol-modified siRNA (Chol-siRNA) are described. The pK(a) of FPBA moiety is 7.2 and, therefore, it exists in equilibrium between negatively charged tetravalent and noncharged hydrophobic trivalent forms in physiological pH conditions. Each form cooperatively stabilizes the micelle in distinct modes, that is, a covalent ester-linkage between charged boronate and ribose functionality at 3' ends of Chol-siRNA and a hydrophobic interaction between noncharged boronic acid and Chol-siRNA. When exposed to ATP at a concentration associated with the intracellular environment, the Chol-siRNA/boronate linkage is readily cleaved to facilitate the release of Chol-siRNA into cytoplasm. In order to further optimize this switching capability, the effect of FPBA modification rate is studied for the resulting ATP-responsive behavior of the micelles. As a result, the range of 23-35% in the modification rate is found suitable to maximize the gene silencing efficiency, demonstrating the potential of the FPBA-modified micelles as ATP-responsive smart siRNA carrier systems. CI - (c) 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. FAU - Naito, Mitsuru AU - Naito M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4237-871X AD - Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan. FAU - Yoshinaga, Naoto AU - Yoshinaga N AD - Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan. FAU - Ishii, Takehiko AU - Ishii T AD - Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan. FAU - Matsumoto, Akira AU - Matsumoto A AD - Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, 2-3-10 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan. AD - Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 2-3-10 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan. FAU - Miyahara, Yuji AU - Miyahara Y AD - Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 2-3-10 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan. FAU - Miyata, Kanjiro AU - Miyata K AD - Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan. AD - Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan. FAU - Kataoka, Kazunori AU - Kataoka K AD - Innovation Center of NanoMedicine, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion, 3-25-14 Tonomachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, 210-0821, Japan. AD - Policy Alternatives Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20171218 PL - Germany TA - Macromol Biosci JT - Macromolecular bioscience JID - 101135941 RN - 0 (Anticholesteremic Agents) RN - 0 (Boronic Acids) RN - 0 (Drug Carriers) RN - 0 (Micelles) RN - 0 (RNA, Small Interfering) RN - 3WJQ0SDW1A (Polyethylene Glycols) RN - 8L70Q75FXE (Adenosine Triphosphate) RN - 97C5T2UQ7J (Cholesterol) RN - K3Z4F929H6 (Lysine) SB - IM MH - Adenosine Triphosphate/*chemistry MH - Anticholesteremic Agents/chemistry/pharmacology MH - Boronic Acids/chemistry MH - Cellular Microenvironment/drug effects MH - Cholesterol/*genetics MH - Cytoplasm/drug effects MH - Drug Carriers/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - Gene Silencing/drug effects MH - HeLa Cells MH - Humans MH - Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions MH - Lysine/chemistry/pharmacology MH - Micelles MH - Polyethylene Glycols/chemistry/pharmacology MH - RNA, Small Interfering/genetics/*pharmacology OTO - NOTNLM OT - ATP-responsivity OT - phenylboronic acid OT - polyion complex micelles OT - siRNA delivery EDAT- 2017/12/19 06:00 MHDA- 2018/12/24 06:00 CRDT- 2017/12/19 06:00 PHST- 2017/10/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/11/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/12/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/12/24 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/12/19 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/mabi.201700357 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Macromol Biosci. 2018 Jan;18(1). doi: 10.1002/mabi.201700357. Epub 2017 Dec 18.