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Redox‐Responsive Gene Delivery from Perfluorocarbon Nanoemulsions through Cleavable Poly(2‐oxazoline) Surfactants
Author(s) -
Estabrook Daniel A.,
Day Rachael A.,
Sletten Ellen M.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.202102413
Subject(s) - gene delivery , oxazoline , pulmonary surfactant , chemistry , redox , glutathione , biophysics , nanotechnology , copolymer , combinatorial chemistry , materials science , transfection , polymer , biochemistry , gene , organic chemistry , catalysis , enzyme , biology
The clinical utility of emulsions as delivery vehicles is hindered by a dependence on passive release. Stimuli‐responsive emulsions overcome this limitation but rely on external triggers or are composed of nanoparticle‐stabilized droplets that preclude sizes necessary for biomedical applications. Here, we employ cleavable poly(2‐oxazoline) diblock copolymer surfactants to form perfluorocarbon (PFC) nanoemulsions that release cargo upon exposure to glutathione. These surfactants allow for the first example of redox‐responsive nanoemulsions in cellulo. A noncovalent fluorous tagging strategy is leveraged to solubilize a GFP plasmid inside the PFC nanoemulsions, whereupon protein expression is achieved selectively when employing a stimuli‐responsive surfactant. This work contributes a methodology for non‐viral gene delivery and represents a general approach to nanoemulsions that respond to endogenous stimuli.