Screening nylon-3 polymers, a new class of cationic amphiphiles, for siRNA delivery

Molecular Pharmaceutics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 362-374

  Nadithe, Venkatareddy ^a   Liu, Runhui ^b,c   Killinger, Bryan A ^a   Movassaghian, Sara ^a   Kim, Na Hyung ^a   Moszczynska, Anna B ^a   Masters, Kristyn S ^c   Gellman, Samuel H ^b   Merkel, Olivia M ^a,d  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

nylon 3; polyplexes; RNAi; siRNA; transfection

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; CHOLESTEROL; LUCIFERASE; METHYL BETA CYCLODEXTRIN; NYLON; NYSTATIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; WORTMANNIN; CATION; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL VIABILITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG UPTAKE; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SURFACE CHARGE; ZETA POTENTIAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; PROCEDURES;

CATIONS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NYLONS; POLYMERS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84961288505     PISSN: 15438384     EISSN: 15438392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/mp5004724     Document Type: Article

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