Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2005, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (4): 634.

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Starch Nanoparticle as Transgenic Vehicle Mediated by Ultrasound

LIU Jun, LIU Xuan-Ming, XIAO Su-Yao, TONG Chun-Yi, TANG Dong-Ying, ZHAO Li-Jian   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Chemo-Biosensing and Chemometrics, The College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
  • Received:2004-08-06 Online:2005-04-10 Published:2005-04-10

Abstract: A method in which poly-L-lysine-starch nanoparticle(PLL-StNP) could act as gene vehicle mediated by ultrasound was described in this paper. It was found that when pIRGFP plasmid DNA-PLL-StNP complexes were treated with ultrasound for different time, electrophoresis analysis showed that the biological characteristics of DNA could be well-kept, when DNA-PLL-StNP complexes were transferred into COS-7 cells mediated by ultrasound for 2 min at 120 W and 40 kHz, the cells were expressed GFP at a frequency of about 70. This method may(will) provide a wide application not only in animal transgenic technique and in human gene therapy, but also in plant transgenic technique.

Key words: Nanoparticle, Gene vehicle, Ultrasound, Gene transfer

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