Cubic membranes: A structure-based design for DNA uptake

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 1023-1029

  Almsherqi, Zakaria ^a   Hyde, Stephen ^b   Ramachandran, Malarmathy ^a   Deng, Yuru ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cubic membranes; Cubic phases; Cubosomes; DNA delivery; Fluorescence microscopy; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FORMING; GELATION; MAMMALS; MEMBRANES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; ORGANIC ACIDS; THEOREM PROVING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANTICLASTIC; BI LAYERS; CELL ORGANELLES; CELL TYPES; CUBIC STRUCTURES; CULTURE CELLS; GEL MATRIX; GENE TRANSFECTION; LIVING SYSTEMS; MAMMALIAN CELLS; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; PHOSPHOROTHIOATE; POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS; SHORT SEGMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) CRYSTALS; TRIPLY PERIODIC MINIMAL SURFACE (TPMS);

CELL MEMBRANES;

DNA; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHOROTHIOATE;

AMOEBA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHAOS CAROLINENSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSFER; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHAOS CAROLINENSE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 47649095628     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1351     Document Type: Article

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