Chain length of cationic α-helical peptide sufficient for gene delivery into cells

Bioconjugate Chemistry

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 773-780

  Niidome, Takuro ^a   Takaji, Keiko ^a   Urakawa, Mamiko ^a   Ohmori, Naoya ^a   Wada, Akihiro ^a   Hirayama, Toshiya ^a   Aoyagi, Haruhiko ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE TRANSFER; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AGGREGATES; AMINO ACIDS; CHAIN LENGTH; CHAINS; CYTOLOGY; DNA; EFFICIENCY; GENE TRANSFER; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

% REDUCTIONS; ACID RESIDUES; AMINO ACID RESIDUES; CATIONICS; CHAINS LENGTH; GENE DELIVERY; HELICAL PEPTIDE; MAMMALIAN CELLS; PEPTIDE LENGTH; TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY;

PEPTIDES;

EID: 0033198763     PISSN: 10431802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bc990012d     Document Type: Article

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