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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
卷 1468, 期 1-2, 页码 396-402出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(00)00278-9
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The design and evaluation of a novel potent class of DNA delivery agents based on steroid-polyamine conjugates bearing a flexible linker are reported. The hydrophobic regions are based on steroids, i.e. chlolestane and lithocholic acid motifs. The linker, which couples a hydrophobic steroid and a hydrophilic polyamine, in this study can be regarded as a two-atom extension of the conventional carbamate linker. Wie found that the gene transfection activity of the steroid-polyamine conjugates is influenced by the polyamine chain length and steroid structure. Molecular modeling of the relevant amphiphilic molecules revealed low-energy structures in which the polyamine chains are folded rather than stretched. This work suggests a significant effect of space-filling, i.e. the shape and orientation of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions, upon the efficiency of gene transfection. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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