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Manipulating Cellular Interactions of Poly(glycidyl methacrylate) Nanoparticles Using Mixed Polymer Brushes

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Clemons, T.
Challenor, M.
Fitzgerald, Melinda
Dunlop, S.
Smith, N.
Swaminathan Iyer, K.
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2016
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Clemons, T. and Challenor, M. and Fitzgerald, M. and Dunlop, S. and Smith, N. and Swaminathan Iyer, K. 2016. Manipulating Cellular Interactions of Poly(glycidyl methacrylate) Nanoparticles Using Mixed Polymer Brushes. ACS Macro Letters. 5 (10): pp. 1132-1136.
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ACS Macro Letters
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This work was funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), the National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia, and the Raine Medical Research Foundation

This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Macro Letters, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see 10.1021/acsmacrolett.6b00613, see http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/articlesonrequest/index.html.

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There is a growing need for the development of nanoparticles, with imaging and drug delivery capabilities, to maintain cellular uptake but avoid protein attachment and recognition. In this study we have demonstrated that nanoparticles consisting of a poly(glycidyl methacrylate) (PGMA) core and a mixed brush architecture of methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) and poly(ethylenimine) (mPEG–PEI) on the surface can meet this need. Surface functionalization with PEI alone results in cellular uptake, but rapid protein attachment whereas PEG alone can avoid protein attachment but to the detriment of cellular uptake. A mixed copolymer brush of both PEI and mPEG provides the ideal balance.