Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems in the prior art and provides a photoreduction degradation composition which comprises a reduction sensitive polymer and a reducing agent molecule shielded by a photosensitive group. The photoreduction degradation composition can respond to intracellular GSH to realize the reduction degradation of the reduction sensitive macromolecules in a normal reducing physiological environment; in the absence of a reducing agent, the photoreduction degradation composition can generate reducing agent molecules in situ under the illumination condition, and can also realize the reductive degradation of the reduction sensitive macromolecules.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
the first technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a photoreduction degradation composition, which comprises a reduction sensitive polymer and a modified reducing agent, wherein the modified reducing agent is a substance obtained by the reaction of the reducing agent and a substance containing a photosensitive group; the photoreduction degradation composition generates a reducing agent in situ due to the removal of photosensitive groups under the action of external light stimulation, and the reducing agent further reacts with the reduction sensitive polymer to realize the reduction degradation of the reduction sensitive polymer.
Further, the reducing agent is one of dithiothreitol, glutathione, dithioerythritol or beta-mercaptoethanol.
Further, the photosensitive group-containing substance is selected from one of the following compounds:
wherein X is a halogen atom, R1Is a hydrogen atom or an optional substituent, R2And R3Is a hydrogen atom or an alkoxy group, wherein R2And R3May be the same or different.
Preferably, the modified reducing agent is selected from one of the following compounds:
in the formula, R is a photosensitive group.
Further, the structural formula of R is as follows:
in the formula, R1Is a hydrogen atom or an optional substituent, R2And R3Is a hydrogen atom or an alkoxy group, wherein R2And R3May be the same or different; the dotted line indicates the position of attachment to the reducing agent.
Further, the reduction-sensitive polymer is a polymer compound containing a disulfide group or a diselenide group.
Preferably, the reduction-sensitive polymer is selected from: polyurethanes, polyesters, polyamino acids, polycarbonates, polyureas, polyethers containing disulfide groups or diselenide groups or copolymers of the above-mentioned macromolecules.
The second technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for preparing the above-mentioned photo-reductive degradation composition, wherein the preparation method comprises: preparing a self-assembly body by a reduction sensitive polymer and a modified reducing agent through a dialysis method, a solvent volatilization method or an extraction method, and then dialyzing, centrifuging and filtering to obtain the photoreduction degradation composition; the modified reducing agent is a substance obtained by reacting a reducing agent with a substance containing photosensitive groups.
Further, the reducing agent is one of dithiothreitol, glutathione, dithioerythritol or beta-mercaptoethanol.
Further, the photosensitive group-containing substance is selected from one of the following compounds:
wherein X is a halogen atom, R1Is a hydrogen atomOr an optional substituent, R2And R3Is a hydrogen atom or an alkoxy group, wherein R2And R3May be the same or different.
Further, the reduction-sensitive polymer is a polymer compound containing a disulfide group or a diselenide group.
Preferably, the reduction-sensitive polymer is selected from: polyurethanes, polyesters, polyamino acids, polycarbonates, polyureas, polyethers containing disulfide groups or diselenide groups or copolymers of the above-mentioned macromolecules.
Further, the modified reducing agent is selected from one of the following compounds:
in the formula, R is a photosensitive group.
Further, the structural formula of R is as follows:
in the formula, R1Is a hydrogen atom or an optional substituent, R2And R3Is a hydrogen atom or an alkoxy group, wherein R2And R3May be the same or different; the dotted line indicates the position of attachment to the reducing agent.
Furthermore, in the above method, an auxiliary substance may be further added to the reduction-sensitive polymer and the modified reducing agent, wherein the auxiliary substance is selected from: an up-conversion material or a photo-thermal material.
The third technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide the use of the above-mentioned photoreductive degradation composition for biosensing or controlled drug release.
The fourth technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for improving the response efficiency of a reduction-sensitive polymer self-assembly, wherein the method comprises: preparing a photoreduction degradation composition by coating a modified reducing agent in a core of a reduction sensitive high-molecular self-assembly, wherein the modified reducing agent is a substance obtained by reacting the reducing agent with a substance containing a photosensitive group; the obtained photoreduction degradation composition generates a reducing agent in situ due to the removal of the photosensitive group under the action of external light stimulation, and the reducing agent further reacts with the reduction sensitive polymer to realize the reduction degradation of the reduction sensitive polymer.
Further, the method for improving the response efficiency of the reduction-sensitive polymer self-assembly body specifically comprises the following steps: preparing the reduction sensitive polymer and the modified reducing agent into a self-assembly body by a dialysis method, a solvent volatilization method or an extraction method, and then preparing the photoreduction degradation composition by dialysis, centrifugation and filtration.
The fifth technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a method for realizing photodegradation of a non-photosensitive polymer, which comprises the following steps: preparing a self-assembly body by a non-photosensitive reduction sensitive polymer and a modified reducing agent through a dialysis method, a solvent volatilization method or an extraction method, and then dialyzing, centrifuging and filtering to obtain a photoreduction degradation composition, wherein the modified reducing agent is a substance obtained by reacting the reducing agent with a substance containing a photosensitive group; the photoreduction degradation composition generates a reducing agent in situ due to the removal of photosensitive groups under the action of external light stimulation, and the reducing agent further reacts with the reduction sensitive polymer to realize the reduction degradation of the non-photosensitive reduction sensitive polymer.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages:
(1) the invention provides a photoreduction degradation composition, which comprises a reduction sensitive polymer and a modified reducing agent (a reducing agent molecule shielded by a photosensitive group). The photoreduction degradation composition can respond to intracellular GSH to realize the reduction degradation of the reduction sensitive macromolecules in a normal reducing physiological environment; in the absence of reducing agents, the photoreduction degradation composition can release reducing agent molecules in situ under the illumination condition, and can also realize the reductive degradation of the reduction sensitive macromolecules. Therefore, the composition of the invention solves the problems of timing fixed point and response as required, overcomes the problems of steric hindrance, permeability obstacle, concentration obstacle and the like of stimulus response, obtains higher response efficiency than the traditional reduction sensitive and photosensitive material, and requires far lower stimulus source concentration than an external reducing agent.
(2) The photoreduction degradation composition comprises macromolecules without photosensitive groups, but can realize the reductive degradation under the stimulation of illumination, thereby realizing the photodegradation of non-photosensitive macromolecules. The method avoids the need of introducing complex photodegradation groups into the polymer structure of the traditional photoresponse macromolecules, thereby having simpler preparation method and better biocompatibility, and being convenient for popularization and application.
(3) The photoreduction degradation composition can realize the near infrared light triggered reduction degradation by compounding with an up-conversion material or a photo-thermal material, or further improve the reduction response rate through the photo-thermal effect.
(4) The photoreduction degradation composition can controllably release reducing agent in situ in physiological environment (such as focus parts or inflammatory parts), thereby changing local physiological microenvironment and playing roles in resisting oxidation, assisting in treating diseases and the like.
(5) The photoreduction degradation composition provided by the invention can be photoreduction degraded into small molecular substances, has higher biocompatibility and is easy to be eliminated and metabolized by organisms.
(6) The photoreduction degradation composition provided by the invention can be widely applied to the biomedical fields and industrial fields of biosensing, drug controlled release, disease treatment and the like.
Detailed Description
The mechanism of the invention is as follows:
takingembodiment 1 as an example, the present invention provides a photoreduction degradation composition, which comprises a light-sensitive o-nitrobenzene (ONB) group modified Dithiothreitol (DTT) reducing agent and a reduction-sensitive polyurethane comprising disulfide bonds; the photoreductive degradation composition is capable of effecting cleavage of the backbone in response to intracellular levels of GSH (10mM) in a normal reducing physiological environment; under the condition of lacking the reducing agent, the polymer can be subjected to ONB removal under the illumination condition, the reducing agent molecule DTT is generated in situ and attacks the reduction-sensitive polyurethane containing the disulfide bond, and the reduction degradation of the reduction-sensitive polyurethane can be further realized.
The photoreductive degradation composition provided in example 1 can generate a reducing agent DTT under the stimulation of external light; because DTT is generated in situ near disulfide groups of the hydrophobic core of the self-assembly, steric hindrance and permeability barriers can be effectively overcome, the stimulation response efficiency is greatly improved, and the reduction degradation efficiency higher than that of an external reducing agent (10mM DTT) is obtained. Furthermore, the concentration of in situ generated DTT (0.1mM) required to achieve reductive degradation is much lower than the concentration of the added DTT reducing agent (10mM), overcoming the concentration limitation of the stimulus response.
In addition, the photoreduction degradation composition provided inembodiment 1 of the present invention does not need to introduce an ONB group into a molecular chain of the reduction-sensitive polyurethane, but can achieve the main chain light-triggered degradation of the reduction-sensitive polyurethane, and avoid the need of introducing a complex photodegradation group into a molecular chain of a conventional photodegradation polymer.
The following examples are given to illustrate the present invention, but it should be understood that the following examples are only for illustrative purposes and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention, and that the present invention may be modified and modified by those skilled in the art in a manner that is not essential to the invention as described above.
Example 1
This example preparedphotoreductive degradation composition 1.
Dissolving dithiothreitol (3.08g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 2-nitrobenzyl bromide (10.3g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 6 hours, filtering the generated precipitate, freeze-drying, and storing in the dark to obtain the modified reducingagent 1.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 1(3mg) and polyurethane (10mg) containing disulfide bonds into N, N-dimethylformamide (1mL), slowly dropwise adding the modified reducing agent and the polyurethane into rapidly stirred deionized water (9mL) at the speed of 30s/d, and continuously stirring for half an hour after dropwise adding; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then, the liquid was centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm), and the volume was determined to obtain aphotoreduction degradation composition 1.
Example 2
This example prepared photoreductive degradation composition 2.
Dissolving dithioerythritol (3.08g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 2- (1-bromobutyl) -1, 3-dinitrobenzene (13.9g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 6 hours, filtering the generated precipitate, freeze-drying, and storing in the dark to obtain the modified reducing agent 2.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 2(5mg) and polyurethane (10mg) containing diselenide bonds into tetrahydrofuran (1mL) together, slowly dropwise adding the modified reducing agent into rapidly-stirred deionized water (9mL) at the speed of 30s/d, and continuously stirring overnight after dropwise adding is finished, so that the tetrahydrofuran is completely volatilized; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then the liquid was centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm), and the volume was determined to obtain a photoreduction degradation composition 2.
Example 3
This example prepared photoreductive degradation composition 3.
Dissolving glutathione (6.14g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; an ethanol solution (40mL) of N-dodecyl-2-iodo-2- (6-nitro-3, 4-methylenedioxybenzene) -acetamide (9.1g) was added dropwise, the mixture was naturally returned to room temperature for reaction for 6 hours, and the product was concentrated, precipitated with diethyl ether, purified by column chromatography, and stored away from light to obtain a modified reducing agent 3.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 3(10mg) in acetone, adding the solution into a small bottle, and drying the small bottle by using nitrogen; then adding polyester-polyethylene glycol copolymer micelle (10mL) containing disulfide bonds, and carrying out ultrasonic treatment for 4 hours; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then, the liquid was centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm), and the volume was determined to obtain a photoreduction degradation composition 3.
Example 4
This example prepared photoreductive degradation composition 4.
Dissolving beta-mercaptoethanol (1.56g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 2-decaethoxymethoxy chloromethyl-3-nitronaphthalene (16.6g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 12 hours, concentrating the product, purifying by using column chromatography, and storing in dark place to obtain the modified reducing agent 4.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 4(12mg) and polyurethane (10mg) containing disulfide bonds into N, N-dimethylacetamide (1mL), slowly dropwise adding the modified reducing agent 4 and the polyurethane at a speed of 30s/d into rapidly-stirred deionized water (9mL), and continuously stirring for half an hour after dropwise adding; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then the liquid was centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm), and the volume was determined to obtain a photoreduction degradation composition 4.
Example 5
This example prepared photoreductive degradation composition 5.
Dissolving dithiothreitol (3.08g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; and (3) dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 1-bromomethylpyrene (14.3g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 12 hours, carrying out suction filtration on the generated precipitate, freeze-drying, and storing in a dark place to obtain the modified reducing agent 5.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 5(8mg) and polyamino acid (10mg) containing disulfide bonds into dioxane (1mL), slowly dropwise adding the modified reducing agent into rapidly stirred deionized water (9mL) at the speed of 30s/d, and continuously stirring for half an hour after dropwise adding; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then, the liquid was centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm), and the volume was determined to obtain a photoreduction degradation composition 5.
Example 6
This example prepared a photoreductive degradation composition 6.
Dissolving dithiothreitol (3.08g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 4-bromomethylcoumarin (11.5g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 6 hours, carrying out suction filtration on the generated precipitate, freeze-drying, and storing in the dark to obtain the modified reducing agent 6.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 6(4mg) and polycarbonate (10mg) containing disulfide bonds into N, N-dimethylformamide (1mL), slowly dropwise adding the modified reducing agent into rapidly stirred deionized water (9mL) at the speed of 30s/d, and continuously stirring for half an hour after dropwise adding; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then the liquid was centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm), and the volume was determined to obtain a photoreduction degradation composition 6.
Example 7
This example prepared a photoreductive degradation composition 7.
Dissolving dithiothreitol (3.08g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 2-bromo-1- (4-methoxyphenyl) ethanone (10.9g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 6 hours, carrying out suction filtration on the generated precipitate, purifying by using column chromatography, and storing in the dark to obtain the modified reducing agent 7.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 7(1mg) and polyurea (10mg) containing disulfide bonds into N, N-dimethylformamide (1mL), slowly dropwise adding the modified reducing agent and the polyurea into rapidly stirred deionized water (9mL) at the speed of 30s/d, and continuously stirring for half an hour after dropwise adding; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then the liquid is centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm) and the volume is determined to obtain the photoreduction degradation composition 7.
Example 8
This example prepared a photoreductive degradation composition 8.
Dissolving dithiothreitol (3.08g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 1-bromomethyl-2-nitro-4-decaethoxymethoxy-5-tetradecyloxybenzene (43.08g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 6 hours, concentrating the product, purifying by using column chromatography, and storing in dark place to obtain the modified reducing agent 8.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 8(8mg) and polyamino ester (10mg) containing disulfide bonds into N, N-dimethylformamide (1mL), slowly dropwise adding the modified reducing agent into rapidly stirred deionized water (9mL) at the speed of 30s/d, and continuously stirring for half an hour after dropwise adding; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then the liquid was centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm), and the volume was determined to obtain a photoreduction degradation composition 8.
Example 9
This example prepared a photoreductively degradable composition 9.
Dissolving dithiothreitol (3.08g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 2-bromomethyl-4-methoxy-5-tetradecyloxy-1, 3-dinitrobenzene (20.1g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 6 hours, filtering the generated precipitate, freeze-drying, and storing in the dark to obtain the modified reducing agent 9.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 9(6mg) and polyurethane (10mg) containing disulfide bonds into N, N-dimethylformamide (1mL), slowly dropwise adding the modified reducing agent into rapidly stirred deionized water (9mL) at the speed of 30s/d, and continuously stirring for half an hour after dropwise adding; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then, the liquid was centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm), and the volume was determined to obtain a photoreduction degradation composition 9.
Example 10
This example prepared a photoreductive degradation composition 10.
Dissolving dithiothreitol (3.08g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 2-nitro-3-iodomethyl-6-methoxynaphthalene (16.5g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 6 hours, and carrying out suction filtration, freeze-drying and light-shielding storage on the generated precipitate to obtain the modified reducing agent 10.
Dissolving a modified reducing agent 10(3mg) and polyurethane (10mg) containing disulfide bonds into N, N-dimethylformamide (1mL), slowly dropwise adding the modified reducing agent into rapidly stirred deionized water (9mL) at the speed of 30s/d, and continuously stirring for half an hour after dropwise adding; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; then the liquid is centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm) and subjected to constant volume to obtain the photoreduction degradation composition 10.
Example 11
This example prepared a photoreductively degradable composition 11.
Dissolving dithiothreitol (3.08g) in an ethanol solution (40mL) of NaOH, and cooling in an ice bath; dropwise adding an ethanol solution (40mL) of 2-nitrobenzyl bromide (10.3g), naturally returning to room temperature for reaction for 6 hours, filtering the generated precipitate, freeze-drying, and storing in the dark to obtain the modified reducing agent 11.
Dispersing n-hexane dispersion (0.2mL, 5mg/mL) of a modified reducing agent 11(3mg), oil-soluble core-shell type up-conversion nanoparticles (material components: NaYF4, Yb, Tm @ NaYF4) and polyurethane (10mg) containing disulfide bonds in tetrahydrofuran (2mL) together, slowly dropwise adding the mixture into rapidly stirred deionized water (9mL) at the speed of 30s/d, and continuously stirring for half an hour after dropwise adding; then transferring the liquid into a dialysis bag with the molecular weight cutoff of 3500, dialyzing in deionized water for 3 days, and changing water every 3 hours; the liquid was then centrifuged (3500r/min), filtered (0.45 μm), and the volume was determined to obtain the photoreduction degradation composition 11.
Application example 1
This application example was conducted to investigate the stimulus response properties of thephotoreduction degradation composition 1 prepared in example 1.
Coating thephotoreduction degradation composition 1 prepared in example 1 on a potassium bromide salt tablet; carrying out ultraviolet illumination on the salt film, and carrying out Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) test at different illumination time points; the results are shown in FIG. 1; from the FTIR spectrum of FIG. 1, 1700cm-1The characteristic peak of the carbonyl group is gradually enhanced along with the illumination, which indicates that the aldehyde carbonyl group is generated by the shedding of the photosensitive group. In order to study the dynamic process of the photo-degradation, the tetrahydrofuran solution of the photo-reductive self-degradation composition 1 is subjected to ultraviolet irradiation, and an ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer is used for testing, and the result is shown in fig. 2, the absorbance of the solution of the photo-reductive self-degradation composition 1 in fig. 2 shows a new peak at 307nm along with the irradiation, and the intensity of the absorption peak does not increase along with the irradiation time and reaches the highest point in about 120 minutes, which indicates that the photo-reductive degradation composition 1 has good photo-responsiveness.
Application example 2
This application example was conducted to investigate the controlled release properties of the stimulus responsive drug of thephotoreduction degradation composition 1 prepared in example 1.
Nile red drug model was entrapped using thephotoreduction degradation composition 1 prepared in example 1; carrying out ultraviolet illumination or external DTT treatment on the drug-loaded self-assembly body, and measuring the change of the Nile red fluorescence intensity along with time by using a fluorescence spectrophotometer; FIG. 3 is a graph of the fluorescence spectra of a photo-reductive degradation composition 1 loaded with Nile Red under UV illumination for different periods of time; FIG. 4 is a graph of fluorescence spectra of a photo-reductive degradation composition 1 loaded with Nile Red at various times after addition of a reducing agent DTT at 0.01 mM; FIG. 5 is a plot of nile red release rate versus time (a for light and b for added DTT).
As can be seen from fig. 3 and fig. 5, under the condition of extremely low concentration (0.01mM) of the reducing agent molecule shielded by the photosensitive group, nile red fluorescence still shows a significant decrease, and still shows good controlled release performance; while with the addition of 0.01mM reducing agent DTT, the fluorescence intensity was almost unchanged, indicating that no nile red molecule was released (FIGS. 4 and 5). The photoreduction degradation composition can overcome steric hindrance and concentration obstacle, improve the efficiency of stimulus sensitivity and drug controlled release, and has response efficiency higher than that of the traditional reduction sensitive polymer system and required stimulus concentration threshold far lower than that of the traditional reduction response system (10 mM).