Effective Gene Silencing by Multilayered siRNA-Coated Gold Nanoparticles

✍ Scribed by Seung Koo Lee; Myung Shin Han; Subashini Asokan; Ching-Hsuan Tung

• Book ID: 104593571
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 806 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1613-6810
• DOI: 10.1002/smll.201001314

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Small interfering RNA (siRNA) has been widely proposed to treat various diseases by silencing genes, but its delivery remains a challenge. A well controlled assembly approach is applied to prepare a protease‐assisted nanodelivery system. Protease‐degradable poly‐L‐lysine (PLL) and siRNA are fabricated onto gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), by alternating the charged polyelectrolytes. In this study, up to 4 layers of PLL and 3 layers of siRNA (sR3P) are coated. Due to the slow degradation of PLL, the incorporated siRNA is released gradually and shows extended gene‐silencing effects. Importantly, the inhibition effect in cells is found to correlate with the number of siRNA layers.