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Relationship between the glutathione-responsive degradability of thiol-organosilica nanoparticles and the chemical structures

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Stimuli-responsive degradable silica nanoparticles (NPs) are active topics of nanomaterial research, because they are expected to be low health-risk nanocarriers capable of controlled release of drugs. Among various stimuli-responsive silica NPs, disulfide bond-containing NPs show degradability by glutathione reduced form (GSH). Here, we synthesized and characterized three kinds of thiol-organosilica NPs made from 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (MPMS) and 3-mercaptopropyl(dimethoxy)methylsilane (MPDMS). MPMS NPs, MPDMS NPs, and MPMS–MPDMS hybrid NPs revealed that the abundance ratio of disulfide bonds to thiols increased with the increase in content rate of MPDMS in thiol-organosilica NPs. We also revealed that thiol-organosilica NPs, which have disulfide bonds, are GSH-responsive degradable silica NPs using an electron microscopy and Ellman’s tests. Furthermore, we synthesized fluorescent MPMS–MPDMS NPs, including rhodamine B, and demonstrated the GSH-responsive release of dye from the NPs. These experiments indicate the potential of thiol-organosilica NPs, which have disulfide bonds as a GSH-responsive drug carrier.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP16K18909 (T.D.), YU Project for Formation of the Core Research Center (T.D.), JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP16K01358 (M.N.), and the JSPS Bilateral Programs (M.N.). Assistance with electron microscopic analyses was provided by Dr. Koichi Udo and the Institute for Biomedical Research and Education, Yamaguchi University Science Research Center, Japan. Assistance with solid-state 13C NMR measurements was provided by Dr. Hirotaka Fujimori, Dr. Yoshiko Murakami, Mr. Ryota Hori, Mr. Yudai Arisuda, and Mr. Yosuke Fukuzawa of Yamaguchi University. Raman spectroscopic measurements were supported by Dr. Kenta Fujii and Dr. Yanko Todorov of Yamaguchi University.

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    Tomohiro Doura, Tadashi Nishio & Michihiro Nakamura

  2. Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA

    Fuyuhiko Tamanoi

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Doura, T., Nishio, T., Tamanoi, F. et al. Relationship between the glutathione-responsive degradability of thiol-organosilica nanoparticles and the chemical structures. Journal of Materials Research 34, 1266–1278 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.501

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