Recombinant fusion proteins TAT-Mu, Mu and Mu-Mu mediate efficient non-viral gene delivery

Journal of Gene Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 275-286

  Rajagopalan, Rukkumani ^a   Xavier, Jennifer ^a   Rangaraj, Nandini ^a   Rao, Nalam Madhusudhana ^a   Gopal, Vijaya ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Cationic liposomes; Cationic peptides; Gene delivery; Gene expression; Non viral gene delivery; Recombinant DNA; TAT Mu; Transfection

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COBALT; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HISTIDINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MU PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL BASED GENE THERAPY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REPORTER GENE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34248526227     PISSN: 1099498X     EISSN: 15212254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgm.1014     Document Type: Article

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