Cell-Penetrating Magnetic Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Delivery and Intracellular Imaging of siRNA

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• 作者：Lifeng Qi ; Lixia Wu ; Shu Zheng ; Yilong Wang ; Hualin Fu ; Daxiang Cui
• 刊名：Biomacromolecules
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：September 10, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：13
• 期：9
• 页码：2723-2730
• 全文大小：538K
• 年卷期：v.13,no.9(September 10, 2012)
• ISSN：1526-4602

文摘

RNA interference is one of the most promising technologies for cancer therapeutics, while the development of a safe and effective small interfering RNA (siRNA) delivery system is still challenging. Here, amphipol polymer and protamine peptide were employed to modify magnetic nanoparticles to form cell-penetrating magnetic nanoparticles (CPMNs). The unique CPMN could efficiently deliver the eGFP siRNA intracellularly and silence the eGFP expression in cancer cells, which was verified by fluorescent imaging of cancer cells. Compared with lipofectamine and polyethyleneimine (PEI), CPMNs showed superior silencing efficiency and biocompatibility with minimum siRNA concentration as 5 nm in serum-containing medium. CPMN was proved to be an efficient siRNA delivery system, which will have great potential in applications as a universal transmembrane carrier for intracellular gene delivery and simultaneous MRI imaging.