Efficient
therapeuic proteins’ delivery into mammalian cells
and subcellular transport (e.g., fast escape from endolysosomes into
cytoplasm) are two key biological barriers that need to be overcome
for antigen-based immunotherapy and related biomedical applications.
For those purposes, we designed a novel kind of photoresponsive polypeptide-glycosylated
poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendron amphiphiles (PGDAs), and their synthesis,
UV-responsive self-assembly, and triggered ovalbumin (OVA) release
have been fully investigated. The highly anisotropic PGDA4 with a glycosylated second-generation PAMAM dendron self-assembled
into stable polypeptide vesicles (polymersomes) within 20–50
wt % water, which exhibited UV-responsive reassembly, dynamic binding
with a lectin of concanavalin A, and an accelerated OVA release in
vitro. Moreover, upon 365 nm UV irradiation, the self-assembled polymersomes
of those glycopolypeptides were transformed into micellar aggregates
in aqueous solution at pH 7.4 but disassembled completely at pH 5.
The OVA-loaded polymersomes could efficiently deliver OVA into RAW264.7
cells and achieve enhanced endolysosomes escape upon UV irradiation,
as revealed by flow cytometry and confocal laser scanning microscopy
(CLSM). Furthermore, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
showed that the blank sugar-coated polypeptidosomes activated a high
level of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) of 468 pg/mL,
playing a better role of immune adjuvant for activating the macrophages.
Upon the UV irradiation with a dose of 3 J/cm2, the OVA-loaded
polymersomes could further stimulate RAW264.7 and enhance the TNF-α
level by about 45%. Consequently, this work provides a versatile platform
to construct photosensitive and sugar-coated polymersomes of glycopolypeptides
that have potential applications for protein delivery, immune adjuvant,
and antigen-based immunotherapy.
A planar slotted patch antenna is proposed for ground penetrating radar (GPR). The proposed antenna has a wide bandwidth ranging from 600 MHz to 4 GHz. Tapered slot feeding, curved ground plane, and slot loading are used for a wideband operation, whereas resistive loading is utilized for removal of notch band. Current loops made by slots are bifurcated with the use of 50 Ω resistors. The antenna is designed and optimized to achieve good performance, especially at lower frequencies while keeping the antenna's physical dimension relatively small. The time-domain analysis of the antenna is performed, and the comparative graph is added after analysis to validate its performance in the impulse-based radar. Furthermore, a sandbox test is conducted; the experimental results show the significance of the proposed antenna toward GPR application. K E Y W O R D S ground penetrating radar, planar antenna, resistively loaded antenna, wideband
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