Bioreducible Fluorinated Peptide Dendrimers Capable of Circumventing Various Physiological Barriers for Highly Efficient and Safe Gene Delivery

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 5821-5832

  Cai, Xiaojun ^a   Jin, Rongrong ^a   Wang, Jiali ^a   Yue, Dong ^a   Jiang, Qian ^a   Wu, Yao ^a   Gu, Zhongwei ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fluorination; gene delivery; peptide dendrimers; physiological barriers; reversible cross linking

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DENDRIMERS; DNA; EFFICIENCY; FLUORINATION; FLUORINE; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; HALOGENATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PEPTIDES; PHYSIOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; VECTORS; VIRUSES;

GENE DELIVERY; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; GENE DELIVERY VECTORS; LUCIFERASE ACTIVITIES; PEPTIDE DENDRIMERS; PHYSIOLOGICAL BARRIERS; POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANES; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

TRANSCRIPTION;

DENDRIMER; DISULFIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HALOGENATION; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HEP-G2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PLASMID; WESTERN BLOTTING; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DENDRIMERS; DISULFIDES; GENETIC THERAPY; HALOGENATION; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 84960540650     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11545     Document Type: Article

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