16
Amino acid functional polypeptides
Structure
pH
Temperature
Redox
Light
Poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(γ-benzyl
L-glutamate)
Diblock
Copolypeptide
YES (Thambi et al.
2011)
Methoxy poly(ethylene
glycol)-b-poly(L-methionine)
Diblock copolypeptide
YES (Xu et al. 2016) YES (Xu et al.
2016)
Poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(amino acid)s
Diblock copolypeptide
YES (Ding et al.
2011)
Poly(Lys), poly(Orn), poly(Lys-b-Orn)
Homopolypeptide,
diblock copolypeptide
YES (Ohkawa et al.
2001)
Polyethylene glycol) methyl
ether(mPEG)-poly(y-cinnamyl-b-Lglutamate)
Diblock copolypeptide
YES (Yan et al.
2012)
Poly(S-(o-nitrobenzyl-L-cysteine)-bpoly(ethylene glycol)
Diblock
Copolypeptide
YES (Liu and Dong
2012)
Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)
20 -bpoly(ethylene glycol)
460 ; poly(lactic-coglycolic acid)
10 -b- poly(ethylene glycol)
235
Diblock copolypeptide
YES
(Kotharangannagari
and Antoni 2011)
Poly(S-(o-nitrobenzyl)-L-cysteine)-bpoly(ethylene glycol)
Diblock copolypeptide
YES (Liu et al.
2014)
YES (Liu et al. 2014)
Poly(S-(2-carboxylethyl)-L-cysteine)
Homopolypeptide
YES (Xiao
et al. 2017)
YES (Xiao et al.
2017)
Numbers in subscript denote the number of repeated units
Table 1.1 (continued)
A. A. Azim et al.