The influence of chitosan valence on the complexation and transfection of DNA: The weaker the DNA–chitosan binding the higher the transfection efficiency
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- 作者：Manuel Alatorre-Meda ; Pablo Taboada ; Florian Hartl ; Tobias Wagner ; Michael Freis ; Julio R. Rodrí ; guez
- 关键词：DNA– ; chitosan binding ; Transfection ; Chitosan valence
- 刊名：Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces
- 出版年：2011
- 出版时间：1 January 2011
- 年：2011
- 卷：82
- 期：1
- 页码：54-62
- 全文大小：556 K
文摘
The DNA–chitosan polyplexes have attracted for some years now the attention of physical-chemists and biologists for their potential use in gene therapy, however, the correlation between the physicochemical properties of these polyplexes with their transfection efficiency remains still unclear. In a recent paper we demonstrated by means of DLS that the DNA–chitosan complexation is favored at acidic conditions considering that fewer amounts of chitosan were required to compact the DNA. As a second study, in the present work we analyze the influence of chitosan valence on the complexation and transfection of DNA. Three chitosans of different molecular weights (three different valences) are characterized as gene carriers at 25 °C and pH 5 over a wide range of chitosan-Nitrogen to DNA-Phosphate molar ratios, N/P, by means of conductometry, electrophoretic mobility, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and β-galactosidase and luciferase expression assays.