No Enhancement of Nuclear Entry by Direct Conjugation of a Nuclear Localization Signal Peptide to Linearized DNA

Bioconjugate Chemistry

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1197-1202

  Tanimoto, Mitsuhide ^a,b   Kamiya, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Minakawa, Noriaki ^a   Matsuda, Akira ^a   Harashima, Hideyoshi ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CROSSLINKING; EFFICIENCY; GENE THERAPY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDES; TRANSCRIPTION;

CROSSLINKING REACTION; CYTOSOLS; DNA MOLECULES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KEY FACTORS; NONVIRAL VECTORS; NUCLEAR ENTRY; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PROTEIN ENCODING; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

DNA;

AMINOPROLYLLYSYLLYSYLLYSYLARGINYLLYSYLVALYLGLUTAMYLASPARTYLPROLYLTYROSYLCYS TEINE; DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN COS1; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSOL; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA; SIMIAE;

EID: 0344494606     PISSN: 10431802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bc034075e     Document Type: Article

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