Efficient gene delivery vectors by tuning the surface charge density of amino acid-functionalized gold nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2213-2218

  Ghosh, Partha S ^a   Kim, Chae Kyu ^a   Han, Gang ^a   Forbes, Neil S ^b   Rotello, Vincent M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivery; DNA; Glutathione; Gold nanoparticles; Transfection

Indexed keywords

AMINATION; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; COLLOIDS; DENDRIMERS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

CONTROLLED RELEASES; DELIVERY; DENDRON; DNA BINDINGS; FIRST GENERATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; GENE DELIVERIES; GENE DELIVERY VECTORS; GLUTATHIONE; GOLD COLLOIDS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGHLY EFFICIENT; INTRACELLULAR GLUTATHIONE LEVELS; LYSINE DENDRONS; POLYLYSINE; SURFACE CHARGE DENSITIES; TRANSFECTION;

ORGANIC ACIDS;

AMINO ACID; DNA; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; KINETICS; LIGHT; PH; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPORTER GENE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GOLD; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 58049206937     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800507t     Document Type: Article

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