Construction of Polycation-Based Non-Viral DNA Nanoparticles and Polyanion Multilayers via Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly
✍ Scribed by Kefeng Ren; Jian Ji; Jiacong Shen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 328 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1336
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Summary: The multilayers of polycation‐based non‐viral DNA nanoparticles and biodegradable poly(L‐glutamic acid) (PGA) were constructed by a layer‐by‐layer (LbL) technique. Poly(ethyleneimine) (PEI) was used to condense DNA to develop non‐viral DNA nanoparticles. AFM, UV‐visible spectrometry, and TEM measurements revealed that the PEI‐DNA nanoparticles were successfully incorporated into the multilayers. The well‐structured, easily processed multilayers with the non‐viral DNA nanoparticles may provide a novel approach to precisely control the delivery of DNA, which may have great potential for gene therapy applications in tissue engineering, medical implants, etc.
A TEM image of the cross section of a (PGA/PEI‐DNA nanoparticle)~20~ multilayer.
imageA TEM image of the cross section of a (PGA/PEI‐DNA nanoparticle)~20~ multilayer.