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The Proton Sponge: a Trick to Enter Cells the Viruses Did Not Exploit
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Several non-permanent polycations possessing substantial buffering capacity below physiological pH, such as lipopolyamines and polyethylenimines, are efficient transfection agents per se, i.e. without the addition of lysosomotropic bases, or cell targeting, or membrane disruption agents. These vectors have been shown to deliver genes as well as oligonucleotides both in vitro and in vivo. Our hypothesis is that their efficiency relies on extensive endosome swelling and rupture that provides an escape mechanism for the polycation/DNA particles.
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- Authors
- Behr, J.-P.
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Behr, Jean-Paul
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- CHIMIA
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- Swiss Chemical Society
- Published
- 1997-02-26
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 34
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- 0009-4293 (ISSN-L)
- 2673-2424
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- Keywords
- proton sponge, polyethyleneimine, endosomal escape, gene delivery, oligonucleotide delivery, buffering capacity
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