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- Title
Synergistic Interplay of Covalent and Non‐Covalent Interactions in Reactive Polymer Nanoassembly Facilitates Intracellular Delivery of Antibodies.
- Authors
Dutta, Kingshuk; Kanjilal, Pintu; Das, Ritam; Thayumanavan, Sankaran
- Abstract
The primary impediments in developing large antibodies as drugs against intracellular targets involve their low transfection efficiency and suitable reversible encapsulation strategies for intracellular delivery with retention of biological activity. To address this, we outline an electrostatics‐enhanced covalent self‐assembly strategy to generate polymer‐protein/antibody nanoassemblies. Through structure–activity studies, we down‐select the best performing self‐immolative pentafluorophenyl containing activated carbonate polymer for bioconjugation. With the help of an electrostatics‐aided covalent self‐assembly approach, we demonstrate efficient encapsulation of medium to large proteins (HRP, 44 kDa and β‐gal, 465 kDa) and antibodies (ca. 150 kDa). The designed polymeric nanoassemblies are shown to successfully traffic functional antibodies (anti‐NPC and anti‐pAkt) to cytosol to elicit their bioactivity towards binding intracellular protein epitopes and inducing apoptosis.
- Subjects
REACTIVE polymers; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; GENE transfection; CARRIER proteins; POLYMERS; CYTOSOL
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2021, Vol 133, Issue 4, p1849
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202010412