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JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 129, Issue 5, Pages 755-759Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a002916
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antisense oligonucleotides; fluorescence resonance energy transfer; liposome; Sendai virus
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The efficacy of two different cationic liposomes, Lipofectin and hemagglutinating virus of Japan (HVJ)-cationic liposomes, on nuclear uptake of fluorescence-labeled phosphorothioate oligodeoxyribonucleotide (S-ODN) by ligament scar fibroblasts and suppression of decorin mRNA expression when antisense decorin S-ODN was transferred was investigated. There was no significant difference in nuclear uptake of fluorescent ODN between the two methods. However only HVJ-cationic liposomes had a significant effect on suppression of decorin mRNA expression levels. To address the discrepancy, the molecular integrity of the transferred ODN in the cells was assessed by analysis of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) within double-fluorescence-labeled S-ODN. More than 70% of the ODN transfected by HVJ-cationic liposomes remained intact within the nucleus at 20 h after transfection, while the majority of the ODN transferred by Lipofectin was degraded at this point. These results suggest a strong relationship between the nuclear integrity of transfected antisense ODN and its suppression of target mRNA expression.
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