An optimized amphiphilic cationic peptide as an efficient non-viral gene delivery vector

Journal of Gene Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 455-464

  Fominaya, Jesús ^a   Gasset, María ^b   García, Rosana ^a   Roncal, Fernando ^a   Albar, Juan Pablo ^a   Bernad, Antonio ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amphipathic helix; DNA binding; Gene delivery; Gene therapy; Membrane perturbation; Peptide; Transfection

Indexed keywords

CATION; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL STRAIN COS1; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PLASMID; PROTEIN BINDING;

3T3 CELLS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATIONS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; COS CELLS; DNA; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0034328409     PISSN: 1099498X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-2254(200011/12)2:6<455::AID-JGM145>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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