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1. Dissolve 100 mg of DPPE in chloroform to obtain a 50 mg/ml of solution.
2. Add 2 ml of TEA.
3. Add 2 g of (pNP)2-PEG dissolved in 20 ml of chlo..."

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pNP-PEG-PE. 

1. Dissolve 100 mg of DPPE  in chloroform to obtain a 50 mg/ml of solution. 

2. Add 2 ml of TEA. 3. Add 2 g of (pNP)2-PEG dissolved in 20 ml of chloroform. 

4. Incubate overnight at room temperature with stirring under argon. 

5. Remove the organic solvents  using a rotary evaporator. 6. Add 0.01 M HCl. 

7. Sonicate using a water bath to form pNP-PEG-PE micelles. 

8. Separate unbound PEG pNP on a column with Sepharose CL-4B using the 0.01 M HCl as an eluent. 

9. Pooled fractions containing pNP-PEG-PE. 

10. Freeze-dried. 

11.Further purify pNP-PEG-PE by  RP-HPLC preparative column using methanol/ 0.01 M HCl (70/30, v/v) as a mobile phase. 

12. Collect the fractions containing pNP-PEG-PE. 

13. Remove mobile phase using a vacuum evaporator. 

14. Store the powder at − 20 °C. 

Synthesis of 

15. Dry 20 mg of pNP-PEG-PE  from  chloroform solution with argon and then by overnight incubation under high vacuum. 

16. Hydrate the resulting film and disperse by vortex for 5 min in the 5-mg/ml R8 solution in 0.01 M HCl, at the pNP-PEG-PE-to-R8 molar ratio of 1-to-1. 

17. Add 4 ml of Tris buffer, pH 9.0 to the suspension, mix and incubate overnight at 4 °C under an argon atmosphere. 

18. The modified R8 becomes amphiphilic and forms micelles, separate these micelles from the non-reacted free R8 by the overnight dialysis against distilled water at 4 °C using a Spectrum dialysis bag (MWCO of 5 kDa). 

19. Freeze-dried. Stoe the R8-PEG-PE powder at − 20 °C. 

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1. Dissolve 100 mg of DPPE in chloroform to obtain a 50 mg/ml of solution.
2. Add 2 ml of TEA.
3. Add 2 g of (pNP)2-PEG dissolved in 20 ml of chlo..."