Surface Permeability of Membrane and Catalytic Performance Based on Redox-Responsive of Hybrid Hollow Polymeric Microcapsules.

Guangyu Wu, Jingyi Wang, Qi Liu, Ran Lu, Yuhan Wei, Feng Cheng, Jiangang Han, Weinan Xing, Yudong Huang

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 2021 Jan 26

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Smart" polymeric microcapsules with excellent permeability of membranes have drawn considerable attention in scientific and industrial research such as drug delivery carriers, microreactors, and artificial organelles. In this work, hybrid hollow polymeric microcapsules (HPs) containing redox-active gold-sulfide bond were prepared with bovine serum albumin, inorganic metal cluster (AuNCs), and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) conjugates by using Pickering emulsion method. HPs were transferred from water-in-oil to water-in-water by adding PEGbis(N-succinimidylsuccinate). To achieve redox-responsive membrane, the Au-S bond units incorporated into the microcapsules' membranes, allowed us to explore the effects of a new stimuli, that is, the redox Au-S bond breaking on the microcapsules' membranes. The permeability of these hybrid hollow polymeric microcapsules could be sensitively tuned via adding environment-friendly hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), resulting from a fast fracture of Au-S bond. Meanwhile, AuNCs and conjugates could depart from the microcapsules, and enhance the permeability of the membrane. Based on the excellent permeability of the membrane, phosphatase was encapsuled into HPs and p-nitrophenyl phosphate as a substrate. After adding 1 × 10-2 and 1 × 10-4 M H2O2, the catalytic efficiency was nearly 4.06 and 2.22 times higher than that of HPs in the absence of H2O2, respectively. Hence, the unique redox-responsive HPs have potential applications in biocatalytic reaction, drug delivery, and materials as well as in bioscience.

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Guangyu Wu, Jingyi Wang, Qi Liu, Ran Lu, Yuhan Wei, Feng Cheng, Jiangang Han, Weinan Xing, Yudong Huang. Surface Permeability of Membrane and Catalytic Performance Based on Redox-Responsive of Hybrid Hollow Polymeric Microcapsules. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland). 2021 Jan 26;26(3)