Branch-PCR Constructed Stable shRNA Transcription Nanoparticles Have Long-Lasting RNAi Effect

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• 作者：Jianbing Liu ; Runyu Wang ; Dr. Dejun Ma ; Yanyan Li ; Dr. Chao Wei and Dr. Zhen Xi
• 刊名：ChemBioChem
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：17
• 期：11
• 页码：1038-1042
• 全文大小：924K
• ISSN：1439-7633

文摘

RNA interference (RNAi) is a cellular process for gene silencing. Because of poor serum stability, transferring dsRNA directly into the target cells is a challenge. We report a facile and universal strategy to construct short hairpin RNA (shRNA) transcription nanoparticles with multiple shRNA transcription templates by PCR with flexible branched primers (branch-PCR). Compared with conventional linear shRNA transcription templates, these shRNA transcription nanoparticles show excellent stability against digestion by exonuclease III. Importantly, we found that our highly stable shRNA transcription nanoparticles can also be transcribed and thus induce efficient and long-lasting RNAi with picomolar activity in living mammalian cells. These chemically well-defined branch-PCR-generated stable shRNA transcription nanoparticles might facilitate RNAi delivery with a long-lasting RNAi effects.