Synthetic approaches for nucleic acid delivery: choosing the right carriers

R Ni, R Feng, Y Chau - Life, 2019 - mdpi.com
The discovery of the genetic roots of various human diseases has motivated the exploration
of different exogenous nucleic acids as therapeutic agents to treat these genetic disorders …

Development of nucleic acid medicines based on chemical technology

Y Kawamoto, Y Wu, Y Takahashi, Y Takakura - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Oligonucleotide-based therapeutics have attracted attention as an emerging modality that
includes the modulation of genes and their binding proteins related to diseases, allowing us …

Kinetic control in assembly of plasmid DNA/polycation complex nanoparticles

Y Hu, Z He, Y Hao, L Gong, M Pang, GP Howard… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) nanoparticles assembled from plasmid DNA (p DNA) and
polycations such as linear polyethylenimine (l PEI) represent a major nonviral delivery …

Double domain polyethylenimine-based nanoparticles for integrin receptor mediated delivery of plasmid DNA

H Sadeghpour, B Khalvati, E Entezar-Almahdi… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The objective of the present study is to conjugate L-thyroxine PEI derivative onto another PEI
to compensate the amine content of the whole structure which has been utilized for the …

Polyethyleneimine-based lipopolyplexes as carriers in anticancer gene therapies

J Jerzykiewicz, A Czogalla - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent years have witnessed rapidly growing interest in application of gene therapies for
cancer treatment. However, this strategy requires nucleic acid carriers that are both effective …

Optimization of brush-like cationic copolymers for nonviral gene delivery

H Wei, JA Pahang, SH Pun - Biomacromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
Polyethylenimine (PEI) is one of the most broadly used polycations for gene delivery due to
its high transfection efficiency and commercial availability but materials are cytotoxic and …

Solution properties of spherical gold nanoparticles with grafted DNA chains from simulation and theory

F Vargas-Lara, FW Starr, JF Douglas - Nanoscale Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been a rapidly growing interest in the use of functionalized Au nanoparticles
(NPs) as platforms in multiple applications in medicine and manufacturing. The sensing and …

Structural comparisons of PEI/DNA and PEI/siRNA complexes revealed with molecular dynamics simulations

JD Ziebarth, DR Kennetz, NJ Walker… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polyplexes composed of polyethyleneimine (PEI) and DNA or siRNA have attracted great
attention for their use in gene therapy. Although many physicochemical characteristics of …

Peptide-induced DNA condensation into virus-mimicking nanostructures

M Cao, Y Wang, W Zhao, R Qi, Y Han… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A series of surfactant-like peptides have been designed for inducing DNA condensation,
which are all comprised of the same set of amino acids in different sequences. Results from …

Quantitative study of effects of free cationic chains on gene transfection in different intracellular stages

J Cai, Y Yue, Y Wang, Z Jin, F Jin, C Wu - Journal of Controlled Release, 2016 - Elsevier
Previously, we revealed that in the application of using cationic polymer chains,
polyethylenimine (PEI), to condense anionic plasmid DNA chains (pDNA) to form the …