Contrasting effects of cysteine modification on the transfection efficiency of amphipathic peptides

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• 作者：Rajpal Sharma ; Daniel Nisakar ; Shivangi Shivpuri ; Munia Ganguli ; ^{mganguli@igib.res.in" class="auth_mail} ; ^{mganguli@igib.in" class="auth_mail}
• 关键词：Cell penetrating peptide ; DNA delivery ; Cysteine modification ; Amphipathicity ; Physicochemical properties ; Polymer formation
• 刊名：Biomaterials
• 出版年：August 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：35
• 期：24
• 页码：6563-6575
• 全文大小：3106 K

文摘

Delivery of DNA to cells remains a key challenge towards development of gene therapy. A better understanding of the properties involved in stability and transfection efficiency of the vector could critically contribute to the improvement of delivery vehicles. In the present work we have chosen two peptides differing only in amphipathicity and explored how presence of cysteine affects DNA uptake and transfection efficiency. We report an unusual observation that addition of cysteine selectively increases transfection efficiency of secondary amphipathic peptide (Mgpe-9) and causes a drop in the primary amphipathic peptide (Mgpe-10). Our results point the effect of cysteine is dictated by the importance of physicochemical properties of the carrier peptide. We also report a DNA delivery agent Mgpe-9 exhibiting high transfection efficiency in multiple cell lines (including hard-to-transfect cell lines) with minimal cytotoxicity which can be further explored for in vivo applications.