2019
DOI: 10.3390/polym11081236
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Effects of Chain Length of Chitosan Oligosaccharides on Solution Properties and Complexation with siRNA

Abstract: In the context of gene delivery, chitosan has been widely used as a safe and effective polycation to complex DNA, RNA and more recently, siRNA. However, much less attention has been paid to chitosan oligosaccharides (COS) despite their biological properties. This study proposed to carry out a physicochemical study of COS varying in degree of polymerization (DP) from 5 to 50, both from the point of view of the solution properties and the complexing behavior with siRNA. The main parameters studied as a function … Show more

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“…Polymer chains of medium size are more flexible and can retain a higher proportion of fat molecules inside the particle. Longer polymer chains are usually associated with molecular entanglement and a higher degree of crystallinity due to stronger intramolecular interactions and formation of particle aggregates that reduce the fat binding capacity, 66–69 corroborating the results in Table 2. Moreover, Czechowska‐Biskup et al 70 evaluated the fat‐binding capacity of radiated and sonicated chitosan samples with DD of about 88% and M v ranging from 25 to 408 kDa.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 80%
“…Polymer chains of medium size are more flexible and can retain a higher proportion of fat molecules inside the particle. Longer polymer chains are usually associated with molecular entanglement and a higher degree of crystallinity due to stronger intramolecular interactions and formation of particle aggregates that reduce the fat binding capacity, 66–69 corroborating the results in Table 2. Moreover, Czechowska‐Biskup et al 70 evaluated the fat‐binding capacity of radiated and sonicated chitosan samples with DD of about 88% and M v ranging from 25 to 408 kDa.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 80%
“…The new source of chitosan was selected based on structural parameters known to influence the formation of complex with siRNA and interfering with the siRNA activity obtained in vitro and in vivo. Consistently, quality criteria included a similarity of the degree of deacetylation and molecular weight as they were the most cited structural parameters of chitosan influencing performances of nucleic acid chitosan-based carriers [26,30,35,37,38,40,41,60]. Nanoparticles designed as siRNA carrier produced with the home-prepared chitosan, NP-CS Lab P, and chitosan of the commercial source, NP-CS Com P, displayed very similar quality based on size and zeta potential criteria.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…SiRNA associates with the nanomedicines thanks to the formation of a complex with chitosan involving electrostatic interactions between the negative charges of the phosphates of siRNA and the positive charges of the amino group of glucosamine residues found in chitosan [26,34,35]. The association is influenced by the molecular weight and degree of deacetylation of chitosan and by conditions in which it is performed including the pH of the medium and the amine to phosphate ratio [26,29,[36][37][38]. The molecular weight of chitosan and its degree of deacetylation were reported to also influence the delivery performance of active siRNA in vitro and in vivo [29,37,[39][40][41][42].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…3). Since the amino groups of GlcN units are mainly not protonated at pH 7, these substrates were uncharged 36 . For each binding mode and substrate, three different conformations with the highest docking scores were chosen from the in silico docking.…”
Section: Docking Studies and MD Simulations With A4 A5 And A3d1mentioning
confidence: 99%