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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Pharmaceutics Année : 2023

PLA-PEG forming worm-like nanoparticles despite unfavorable packing parameter: Formation mechanism, thermal stability and potential for cell internalization

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Most nanoparticles produced for drug delivery purposes are spherical. However, the literature suggests that elongated particles are advantageous, notably in terms of cellular uptake. Thus, we synthesized biocompatible polylactide-b-poly(ethylene glycol) (PLA-PEG) polymers bearing carboxylate moieties, and used them to formulate worm-like nanoparticles by a simple emulsion-evaporation process. Worm-like nanoparticles with variable aspect ratio were obtained by simply adjusting the molar mass of the PLA block: the shorter the molar mass of the PLA block, the more elongated the particles. As PLA molar mass decreased from 80,000 g/mol to 13,000 g/mol, the proportion of worm-like nanoparticles increased from 0 to 46%, in contradiction with the usual behavior of block polymers based on their packing parameter. To explain this unusual phenomenon, we hypothesized the shape arises from a combination of steric and electrostatic repulsions between PEG chains bearing a carboxylate moiety present at the dichloromethane-water interface during the evaporation process. Worm-like particles turned out to be unstable when incubated at 37 °C, above polymer glass transition temperature. Indeed, above Tg, a Plateau-Rayleigh instability occurs, leading to the division of the worm-like particles into spheres. However, this instability was slow enough to assess worm-like particles uptake by murine macrophages. A slight but significant increase of internalization was observed for worm-like particles, compared to their spherical counterparts, confirming the interest of developing biocompatible anisotropic nanoparticles for pharmaceutical applications such as drug delivery
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hal-04172728 , version 1 (28-07-2023)

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Baptiste Robin, Ludivine Mousnier, Hung Lê, Nadège Grabowski, David Chapron, et al.. PLA-PEG forming worm-like nanoparticles despite unfavorable packing parameter: Formation mechanism, thermal stability and potential for cell internalization. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2023, 643, pp.123263. ⟨10.1016/j.ijpharm.2023.123263⟩. ⟨hal-04172728⟩
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