Ray, Arunendra SahaGhann, William E.Tsoi, Phoebe S.Szychowski, BrianDockery, Lance T.Pak, Yewon J.Li, WenjingKane, Maureen A.Swaan, PeterDaniel, Marie-Christine2019-02-192019-02-192019-02-04Arunendra Saha Ray, William E. Ghann, Phoebe S. Tsoi, Brian Szychowski, Lance T. Dockery, Yewon J. Pak, Wenjing Li, Maureen A. Kane, Peter Swaan, and Marie-Christine Daniel, Set of Highly Stable Amine- and Carboxylate-Terminated Dendronized Au Nanoparticles with Dense Coating and Nontoxic Mixed-Dendronized Form, Langmuir Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03196https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03196http://hdl.handle.net/11603/12819The synthesis of a novel poly(propyleneimine) (PPI) dendron in gram scale as well as its use in the formation of a highly stable, dendronized gold nanoparticle (AuNP)-based drug delivery platform is described herein. The AuNP-based platform is composed of three complementary parts: (i) a 15 nm AuNP core, (ii) a heterofunctional thioctic acid-terminated tetraethylene glycol spacer, and (iii) a third-generation PPI dendron with a unique protonation profile and diverse end-group functionalization that allows for further derivatization. The prepared dendronized AuNPs are able to withstand several rounds of lyophilization cycles with no sign of aggregation, are stable in phosphate-buffered saline and Hanks’ buffer as well as in serum, and are resistant to degradation by glutathione exchange reactions. This nanocarrier platform displays a dense coating, with >1400 dendrons/AuNPs, which will enable very high payload. Furthermore, while amine-terminated AuNPs expectedly showed cytotoxicity against the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line from a NP concentration of 1 nM, the mixed monolayer AuNPs (coated with 40/60 amine/carboxylate dendrons) interestingly did not exhibit any sign of toxicity at concentrations as high as 15 nM, similar to the carboxylate-terminated AuNPs. The described dendronized AuNPs address the current practical need for a stable NP-based drug delivery platform which is scalable and easily conjugable, has long-term stability in solution, and can be conveniently formulated as a powder and redispersed in desired buffer or serum.13 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Langmuir, Article ASAP, ACS Journals, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03196Access to this item will begin on 02/04/2020novel poly(propyleneimine)gold nanoparticlederivatizationnanocarrierText