A new siRNA delivery system using a cationic glyco-star polymer is described. Spermine-modified 8-arm amylose star polymer (with a degree of polymerization of approximately 60 per arm) was synthesized by chemoenzymatic methods. The cationic star polymer effectively bound to siRNA and formed spherical complexes with an average hydrodynamic diameter of 230 nm. The cationic 8-arm star polymer comp...

A dual catalytic system combining an original cationic zinc complex and a tertiary amine is shown to promote efficiently the polymerization of lactide under mild conditions.

The living cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-oxazolines with fluorinated aromatic substituents was found to be strongly accelerated by o-fluoro substituents.

Rhodium complexes with functionalized NHC ligands catalyze the polymerization of phenylacetylene to give very high molar mass stereoregular polymers. Surprisingly, some chloro-complexes are much more active than related cationic precursors also.

Oligoanions such as sodium triphosphate or GTP prevent and/or reverse vinblastine-induced polymerization of tubulin. We now show that the anions of glutamate-rich extreme C termini of tubulin are similarly involved in the regulation of the vinblastine effect. Cleavage of the C termini by limited proteolysis with subtilisin enhances vinblastine-induced tubulin polymerization and abolishes the an...