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Caging metal ions with visible light-responsive nanopolymersomes.


ABSTRACT: Polymersomes are bilayer vesicles that self-assemble from amphiphilic diblock copolymers, and provide an attractive system for the delivery of biological and nonbiological molecules due to their environmental compatibility, mechanical stability, synthetic tunability, large aqueous core, and hyperthick hydrophobic membrane. Herein, we report a nanoscale photoresponsive polymersome system featuring a meso-to-meso ethyne-bridged bis[(porphinato)zinc] (PZn2) fluorophore hydrophobic membrane solute and dextran in the aqueous core. Upon 488 nm irradiation in solution or in microinjected zebrafish embryos, the polymersomes underwent deformation, as monitored by a characteristic red-shifted PZn2 emission spectrum and confirmed by cryo-TEM. The versatility of this system was demonstrated through the encapsulation and photorelease of a fluorophore (FITC), as well as two different metal ions, Zn(2+) and Ca(2+).

SUBMITTER: Griepenburg JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4303334 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Caging metal ions with visible light-responsive nanopolymersomes.

Griepenburg Julianne C JC   Sood Nimil N   Vargo Kevin B KB   Williams Dewight D   Rawson Jeff J   Therien Michael J MJ   Hammer Daniel A DA   Dmochowski Ivan J IJ  

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20150107 2


Polymersomes are bilayer vesicles that self-assemble from amphiphilic diblock copolymers, and provide an attractive system for the delivery of biological and nonbiological molecules due to their environmental compatibility, mechanical stability, synthetic tunability, large aqueous core, and hyperthick hydrophobic membrane. Herein, we report a nanoscale photoresponsive polymersome system featuring a meso-to-meso ethyne-bridged bis[(porphinato)zinc] (PZn2) fluorophore hydrophobic membrane solute a  ...[more]

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