Japan Science and Technology Agency

The University of Tokyo

Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Teijin Limited

Yasutaka Anraku

Kazunori Kataoka

Akihiro Kishimura

Kanjiro Miyata

Akinori Goto

Nobuhiro Nishiyama

Takehiko Ishii

Takanori Yokota

Kazutaka Nishina

Hidehiro Mizusawa

Yu Matsumoto

Makoto Oba

Tomoya Suma

Sayan Chuanoi

Hiroya Kuwahara

Akihiro Mizoguchi

Yu Fukusato

Mitsuru Sakai

Aya Koide

Shigehito Osawa

Meng Zheng

Stephanie Lee

QiuMing Yu

Daiki Sueyoshi

Qiuming Yu

The present invention provides a nanoreactor (nano size reaction field) using a polyion complex polymersome and a method for producing the nanoreactor. The present invention provides a polyion complex polymersome encapsulating e.g., an enzyme, in which the enzyme is an enzyme acting on a substance passing through a membrane of the polyion complex polymersome, as a substrate.

Nanoreactor using polyion complex polymersomes, and method for producing same

The present invention provides a vesicle, a conjugate, a composition comprising the vesicle or the conjugate, for use in delivering a drug to the brain, and a method for administering the same. The composition of the present invention is a composition for administration to a subject according to a dosing regimen, comprising a carrier for drug delivery, wherein the dosing regimen comprises administering the composition to a subject who has been fasted or caused to have hypoglycemia and inducing an increase in blood glucose level in the subject, and the carrier is modified at the outer surface thereof with a GLUT1 ligand.

Carrier for use in delivering drug, conjugate, composition comprising same, and method for administrating same

Provided are a micelle composition for nucleic acid delivery using a temperature-sensitive polymer, and a method for producing the micelle. For example, provided is a polyion complex comprising a temperature-sensitive copolymer and a nucleic acid, wherein the temperature-sensitive copolymer comprises a cationic block and a temperature-sensitive block, the cationic block optionally carrying a hydrophilic block linked thereto, and the polyion complex is obtained by mixing the temperature-sensitive copolymer with the nucleic acid under temperature conditions equal to or lower than the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the temperature-sensitive copolymer.

Micelle composition for nucleic acid delivery using temperature-sensitive polymer and method for producing same

Provided is a monodisperse agglomerate of a substance-containing vesicle filled with a substance at a concentration higher than conventionally possible. A mixed solution, in which a target substance is included in an aqueous medium, is mixed with a monodisperse agglomerate of a crosslinked vesicle comprising a prescribed polymer which includes a first polymer, i.e. a block copolymer having uncharged hydrophilic segments and first charged segments, and a second polymer having second charged segments carrying a charge opposite to that of the first charged segments, and in which the first polymer and/or the second polymer are/is crosslinked. As a result, the crosslinked vesicle is made to contain the target substance.

Substance-containing vesicle, and production method therefor

Provided is a method for easily and efficiently producing encapsulated substance vesicles wherein a substance is encapsulated in the cavity of vesicles obtained by polymer self-assembly. Empty vesicles that have membranes comprising a first polymer that is a block copolymer with uncharged hydrophilic segments and a first kind of charged segments and a second polymer with a second kind of charged segments that carry a charge that is the opposite of said first kind of charged segments as well as spaces that are enclosed by said membranes are mixed in an aqueous medium with the substance that is to be encapsulated in the spaces.

Substance-encapsulating vesicle and process for producing the same

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electrostatically bonded vesicle which bears disulfide bonds or thiol groups. The present invention relates to a vesicle having a membrane which is formed from both a first polymer of (a) or (b) and a second polymer of (c) or (d) (with the proviso that a combination of (b) and (d) is excepted) and in which the cationic segment and anionic segment of the polymers are partially crosslinked. First polymer: (a) a block copolymer (I) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and a cationic segment, (b) an amino acid polymer (I) having a cationic segment. Second polymer: (c) a block copolymer (II) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and an anionic segment, (d) an amino acid polymer (II) having an anionic segment.

Electrostatically bonded vesicle

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Yasutaka Anraku