Importance of hydrophobic region in amphiphilic structures of α-helical peptides for their gene transfer-ability into cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 259-265

  Ohmori, Naoya ^a   Niidome, Takuro ^a   Kiyota, Taira ^b   Lee, Sannamu ^c   Sugihara, Gohsuke ^b   Wada, Akihiro ^a   Hirayama, Toshiya ^a   Aoyagi, Haruhiko ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; DNA; PEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032492542     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.8408     Document Type: Article

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