Human serum albumin enhances DNA transfection by lipoplexes and confers resistance to inhibition by serum

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1463, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 459-469

  Simões, Sérgio ^a,b,d   Slepushkin, Vladimir ^a   Pires, Pedro ^c,d   Gaspar, Rogério ^b,d   Pedroso De Lima, Maria C ^c,d   Düzgüneş, Nejat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cationic liposome; Gene delivery; Gene therapy; Human serum albumin; In vivo; Macrophage

Indexed keywords

DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; DNA; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; LIPOSOME; VIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENDOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MEMBRANE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZETA POTENTIAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BLOOD; CELL LINE; COS CELLS; DRUG CARRIERS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LIPOSOMES; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; PLASMIDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SERUM ALBUMIN; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0342680042     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(99)00238-2     Document Type: Article

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