期刊
JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE
卷 152, 期 1, 页码 143-151出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2011.03.020
关键词
Gene delivery; Polyethylenimine; Effect of chain length; Laser light scattering
资金
- National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (NNSFC) [50773077, 20934005]
- Hong Kong Special Administration Region Earmarked Projects [CUHK4046/08P, 2160365, CUHK4039/08P, 2160361, CUHK4042/09P, 2160396]
Our revisit of the complexation between DNA and polyethylenimine (PEI) by using a combination of laser light scattering and gel electrophoresis confirms that nearly all the DNA chains are complexed with PEI to form polyplexes when the molar ratio of nitrogen from PEI to phosphate from DNA (N:P) reaches similar to 3, irrespective of the PEI chain length and solvent. Each solution mixture with N:P>3 contains two kinds of PEI chains: bound to DNA and free in the solution. It has been shown that it is those free PEI chains that play a vital role in promoting the gene transfection. The effects of the length of the bound and free chains on the gene transfection were respectively studied. Both short and long PEI chains are capable of condensing DNA completely at N:P similar to 3 but long ones are -10(2)-fold more effective in the gene transfection, apparently due to their fast endocytosis and intracellular trafficking. The cellular uptake kinetics studied by flow cytometry reveals that long free chains increase the uptake rate constant of the DNA/PEI complexes. In the intracellular pathway, they are able to prevent the development of the later endolysosomes, and facilitate the subsequent release of the polyplexes from the endosomes. Our result shows that the proton sponge effect is not dominant because the shut-down of the proton pump only partially attenuates the transfection efficiency. A possible mechanism is speculated and presented. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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