How Free Cationic Polymer Chains Promote Gene Transfection by Yue Yanan

March 3, 2017 by admin

By Yue Yanan

during this PhD thesis, Yue Yanan addresses a long-overlooked and significant query within the improvement of non-viral vectors for gene supply. the writer determines that these uncomplexed and cationic polymer chains unfastened within the resolution mix of polymer and DNA facilitate and advertise gene transfection. in addition, by utilizing a mixture of man-made chemistry, polymer physics and molecular biology, Yue confirms that it's these cationic polymer chains loose within the answer combination, instead of these sure to DNA chains, that play a decisive function in intracellular trafficking. rather than the formerly proposed and commonly permitted “proton sponge” version, the author's crew suggest a brand new speculation in response to the result of numerous well-designed and decisive experiments. those effects convey that unfastened polycationic chains with a size of greater than ~10 nm may be able to in part block the fusion among varied endocytic vesicles, together with the endocytic-vesicle-to-endolysosome pathway. This thesis is very unique and its effects enormously deepen our figuring out of polymer-mediated gene transfection. extra importantly, it presents new insights into the rational layout of next-generation stronger polymeric gene-delivery vectors.

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