Micelles with ultralow critical micelle concentration as carriers for drug delivery.

Nat Biomed Eng

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.

Published: May 2018

Conventional micellar carriers disassemble into free surfactants when diluted at concentrations below the critical micelle concentration (CMC). This limits the bioavailability in vivo of injected hydrophobic drugs encapsulated in micellar systems. Here, we show that a micelle comprising a superhydrophilic zwitterionic polymer domain and a superhydrophobic lipid domain has an undetectable CMC below 10 mM-a value that is orders of magnitude lower than the CMCs (>10 mM) of typical micellar systems. We also show that zwitterionic moieties or zwitterionic polymers added to a micelle solution stabilize the micelles at concentrations below their inherent CMC. In a mouse model of melanoma, ultralow-CMC micelles encapsulating docetaxel led to the complete eradication of tumours, whereas conventional docetaxel micellar formulations did not reverse tumour growth. Ultralow-CMC micelles might become next-generation carriers for drug delivery.

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