Water-soluble polymers with low critical solution temperature (LCST) as carriers for protein drug delivery

The copolymers of N,N-diethylacrylamide and ovomucoid from duck egg white (an inhibitor of proteolytic enzymes) with low critical solution temperature (LCST) have been synthesized. The behaviour of these copolymers at the point of phase transition was investigated. It was shown that the relation between LCST and physiological activity for these copolymers is a function of their composition. The increase of ovomucoid content leads to the increase of LCST. When the content of ovomucoid rises above 0.2 mol%, LCST disappears. At the same time the physiological activity of obtained copolymers decrease with increasing of N,N-diethylacrylamide content.