Volume 14, Issue 12 pp. 1748-1754
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Decomposition and Transformation of Pyrene-Derivative Micelles at Intracellular Milieu and Their Influence on Cytoviability

Haisheng Wang

Haisheng Wang

MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027 China

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Wei Yu

Wei Yu

MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027 China

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Wenbo Zhang

Wenbo Zhang

MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027 China

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Changyou Gao

Corresponding Author

Changyou Gao

MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027 China

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First published: 10 September 2014
Citations: 9

Abstract

The amphiphilic pyrene-containing random copolymers with pH-sensitive hydrazone bonds are synthesized by copolymerizing hydrophobic pyrene-containing methacrylhydrazone with hydrophilic N,N-dimethylacrylamide. The hydrolysable copolymers form spherical micelles at pH 6, which are further transformed into pure 1-pyrenecarboxaldehyde nanorods due to cleavage of the hydrazone bonds. Likewise, the shape transformation is observed under pH 5.5 phosphate buffered saline. Moreover, the hydrolysable micelles being co-cultured with A549 cells cause higher cytotoxicity than the non-hydrolysable ones without shape transformation, which are synthesized by reducing the hydrazone bonds with NaHB4.mabi201400338-gra-0001

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