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Ethynyl benziodoxolones: functional terminators for cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)s

Morelli, Paola
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Martin-Benlloch, Xavier
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Tessier, Romain  
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2016
Polymer Chemistry

Outperforming cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs), cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)s (CPDs) are attracting increasing interest. CPDs are accessible by ring-opening disulfide-exchange polymerization under mild conditions in neutral water. Initiation of the polymerization with thiols results in quantitative labeling of one CPD terminus with initiators of free choice. In contrast, labeling of the other terminus with iodoacet-amides has so far been ineffective because of poor yields and the high excess of reagents needed. In this report, we introduce hypervalent iodine reagents as operational terminators of the synthesis of CPDs, also at high dilution. The power of the approach is exemplified with green-fluorescent initiators and ethynyl benziodoxolone terminators containing additional azides for CuAAC with red-fluorescent alkynes. The absorption spectra of the resulting CPDs demonstrate that stoichiometric application of ethynyl benziodoxolone terminators results in 46% incorporation. FRET between green-fluorescent initiators and red-fluorescent terminators demonstrates significant folding of CPDs in solution; it disappears upon reductive depolymerization. Substrates attached to the new termini are shown to enter into HeLa cells. Moreover, disappearance of FRET in the cytosol corroborated the reductive cleavage of CPDs upon internalization. Beyond the introduction of enthynyl benziodoxolones as operational terminators, these findings thus demonstrate also the compatibility of CuAAC with poly(disulfide) s and the usefulness of doubly-labeled CPDs for structural and mechanistic studies.

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research article
DOI
10.1039/c6py00562d
Web of Science ID

WOS:000376090400014

Author(s)
Morelli, Paola
Martin-Benlloch, Xavier
Tessier, Romain  
Waser, Jerome  
Sakai, Naomi
Matile, Stefan
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

Published in
Polymer Chemistry
Volume

7

Issue

20

Start page

3465

End page

3470

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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LCSO  
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July 19, 2016
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