Abstract
A new strategy for promoting endoplasmic gene delivery and nucleus uptake is proposed by developing intracellular microenvironment responsive biocompatible polymers. This delivery system can efficiently load and self-assemble nucleic acids into nano-structured polyplexes at a neutral pH, release smaller imidazole-gene complexes from the polymer backbones at intracellular endosomal pH, transport nucleic acids into nucleus through intracellular environment responsive multiple-stage gene delivery, thus leading to a high cell transfection efficiency.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 871-877 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Small |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 12 Mar 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- controlled gene release
- intracellular microenvironment responsive
- multiple-stage gene delivery
- nucleus uptake