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Enhancement and optimization of plasmid expression in femtosecond optical transfection

✍ Scribed by Bavishna B. Praveen; David J. Stevenson; Maciej Antkowiak; Kishan Dholakia; Frank J. Gunn-Moore

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
614 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
1864-063X

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Abstract

Cell transfection using femtosecond lasers is gaining importance for its proven ability to achieve selective transfection in a sterile and relatively non‐invasive manner. However, the net efficiency of this technique is limited due to a number of factors that ultimately makes it difficult to be used as a viable and widely used technique. We report here a method to achieve significant enhancement in the efficiency of femtosecond optical transfection. The transfection procedure is modified by incorporating a suitable synthetic peptide containing nuclear localization and DNA binding sequences, assisting DNA import into the nucleus. We achieved a 3‐fold enhancement in the transfection efficiency for adherent Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO‐K1) cells with this modified protocol. Further, in the presence of this biochemical reagent, we were able to reduce the required plasmid concentration by ∼70% without compromising the transfection efficiency. Also, we report for the first time the successful photo‐transfection of recently trypsinised cells with significantly high transfection efficiency when transfected with modified plasmid. This paves the way for the development of high throughput microfluidic optical transfection devices. (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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