Polymeric nucleic acid vehicles exploit active interorganelle trafficking mechanisms

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 347-364

  Fichter, Katye M ^a   Ingle, Nilesh P ^b   McLendon, Patrick M ^c   Reineke, Theresa M ^b  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cationic polymer; gene therapy; interorganelle; intracellular trafficking; polyplex

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC ORGANELLE; BIOMEDICAL EXPERIMENTS; BUFFERING CAPACITIES; CATIONIC POLYMERS; COLOCALIZATION; DELIVERY MECHANISM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOSOMAL RELEASE; INTERORGANELLE; INTRACELLULAR TRAFFICKING; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NANOCOMPLEXES; NUCLEAR DELIVERY; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDES; POLYCATIONS; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYMERIC STRUCTURES; POLYPLEXES; PROTON SPONGE; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SLOW RELEASE; TRANSGENE EXPRESSION;

CELL MEMBRANES; EXPERIMENTS; GENE THERAPY; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

POLYMERS;

DNA; NANOCAPSULE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MUSCLE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MUSCLE CELLS; NANOCAPSULES; ORGANELLES; RATS; TRANSFECTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872875452     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304218q     Document Type: Article

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