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Nanosized polymeric nanoparti cles provide a comprehensive platform for achieving the enhanced drug solubility stability, improving the effect iveness of drug therapy and reducing the side effects of the loaded drug to healthy tissues. Many different natural JNJ-7706621 443797-96-4 and synthetic polymers have been developed as drug de livery carriers. Polyhydroxyalkanoates are a family of biodegradable aliphatic polyesters which are synthe sized by a wide range of bacteria. PHAs have been exten sively studied as implantable tissue repair regeneration devices and other biomedical devices such as sutures and suture fasteners, because of their good biocompatibility and biodegradability, Recently, PHAs have also been explored for controlled drug release applications, Based on their polyester aliphatic properties, PHAs are more efficient in encapsulating the hydrophobic com pounds and thus would be especially beneficial for hydro phobic drugs.<br><br> Several commercialized PHAs, for example, polyhydroxybutyrate and poly, have been success fully developed into nanoparticles and investigated for the entrapment and release profiles of hydrophobic buy LDN193189 compounds. The drug loaded PHA nanoparticles dem onstrated sustained release of hydrophobic drugs and enhanced bioavailability in cell based assays, In our previous studies, a novel naturally synthesized hybrid polyester, polyethylene glycol 200 end capped poly was directly produced by Aeromonas hydrophila fermentation, In this study, the novel PHBHHxPEG NPs were prepared and investigated to serve as the nanocarrier for sustained release of a hydro phobic kinase inhibitor like RAP.<br><br> RAP cellular uptake of PHBHHxPEG NPs, in vitro release of RAP from the NPs, cellular proliferation inhibition and kinase inhib ition of RAP loaded NPs were investigated. The results obtained in this study indicated that the microbial LY2157299 ic50 syn thesized PHBHHxPEG hybrid copolymer represents a promising material to serve as an intracellular drug de livery carrier for sustained release of hydrophobic kinase inhibitors. Results Preparation and characterization of PHBHHx and PHBHHxPEG NPs Two kinds of free nanoparticles, two kinds of rhodamine loaded nanoparticles and three kinds of rapamycin loaded nanoparticles were prepared by an emulsification solvent evaporation tech nique. The sizes and polydispersities of the nanoparti cles were listed in Table 1.<br><br> Figure 1 showed the TEM photographs and the size distribution of PHBHHx and PHBHHxPEG NPs, respectively. The sizes of nanoparticles ranged from 100 to 300 nm after 6 h stirring with relative low polydispersity index, At the drug material feed ing ratio of 1:10, entrapment efficiency of rapamycin in both PHBHHx and PHBHHxPEG NPs were higher than 90%. The drug loading content of RAP loaded PHBHHx and PHBHHxPEG NPs were 8. 52% and 8. 47%, respectively. PLA NPs demonstrated lower entrapment ability compared with PHBHHx and PHBHHxPEG NPs, which was consisted with our previous report. In vitro release of rapamycin Three kinds of RAP loaded NPs were prepared based on PLA, PHBHHx and PHBHHxPEG, respectively. Figure 2 shows the in vitro release profiles of RAP loaded NPs in water at 37 C.