title: Interest of designed cyclodextrin-tools in gene delivery.
abstract: Cyclodextrins (CyDs) currently displays even today the image of a natural macrocyclic compound largely dominant in the formation of inclusion complexes with small hydrophobic molecules. During the past 10years, advances in this field allowed to achieve more and more sophisticated CyDs derivatives opening a simple access in scale-up quantities to original and better CyD-based gene delivery systems. In addition, possibility to combine covalent and supramolecular approaches offers new venues for the design of tailor-made CyD-based nanovehicles to improve their transfection ability and gene transfer in cells. In this account, we describe our recent progress in the construction of a novel CyD-based G0 (generation number) core dendrimer, scalable to CyD oligomers by a strategy using protonable guanidine tethers and whose concept can be generalized for the assembly of CyD pre-coated dendrimers. The synthetic strategy based on an original Staudinger-Aza-Wittig tandem coupling reaction. We present an outline of the different analytical strategies to characterize CyD-ODN (cyclodextrin-oligodeoxynucleotide) complexes. Among them, Capillary electrophoresis (CE) was used to perfectly characterize our CyD-siRNA and CyD-DNA complexes and shown to be a very attractive method with advantages of low sample consumption, rapid analysis speed, and high efficiency that make this technology a major tool for association constant measurement. Finally, we present the different biological methods that can be used, in vitro, to study gene delivery, and more precisely ones we have performed to evaluate the capability of our original model bis-guanidinium-tetrakis-β-cyclodextrin dendrimeric tetrapod, to deliver efficiently DNA or siRNA in eukaryotic cells.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire structure et réactivité des systèmes moléculaires, complexes UMR CNRS 7565, université de Lorraine, BP 70239, 54506 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy cedex, France.
authors.forename: R-E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Duval
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Clarot
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dumarcay-Charbonnier
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fontanay
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marsura
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D004396:Coloring Agents; D003505:Cyclodextrins / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D004247:DNA / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004337:Drug Carriers / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D013778:Tetrazolium Salts; D013844:Thiazoles
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D003505:Cyclodextrins; D004337:Drug Carriers; D013778:Tetrazolium Salts; D013844:Thiazoles; D004247:DNA; C022616:thiazolyl blue