The effects of molecular weight on the structure of non-covalent polymer therapeutics

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Polymer therapeutic describes polymeric drugs, polymer-drug conjugates, polymer-protein conjugates, polymeric micelles to which drug is covalently bound, and multicomponent polyplexes that are being developed as non-viral vectors. Following selective uptake into the tumour tissue via the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect, polymer therapeutics follow an endocytic route, leading to lysosomes. A drop in pH in late endosomal/lysosomal compartments is used to cleave the linker attaching the anticancer drug to the polymeric carrier. In this project, we explore the use of a heterodimeric coiled coil motif as a non-covalent linker for the construction of non-covalent polymer therapeutics. Here, we wish to probe the solution conformation of a series of non-covalent conjugates as a function of monomer-peptide loading, and degree of inclusion of the coiled coil motif.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079855
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079855
Provenance
Creator Professor Peter Griffiths; Dr Alison Paul
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-05-02T08:12:04Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-05-03T12:55:40Z