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SUBMITTER: Choi YI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6523983 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Young In YI Choi Eun-Sook ES Mun Kwan Ho KH Lee Se Guen SG Lee Sung Jun SJ Jeong Sang Won SW Lee Seung Woo SW Kim Hyun-Chul HC
Polymers 20190402 4
Polymeric micelles as drug delivery vehicles are popular owing to several advantages. In this study, a gemini amphiphile (gemini mPEG-Cys-PMT) consisting of hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) and hydrophobic poly(methionine) with cystine disulfide spacer was synthesized and its micellar properties for thiol- or reactive oxygen species (ROS)-dependent intracellular drug delivery were described. The cleavage of cystine linkage in a redox environment or the oxidation of methionine units in a ROS env ...[more]