Evidence for targeted gene transfer by receptor-mediated endocytosis

Autor: Arthur Hawtrey, Mario Ariatti, Barbara Huckett
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Biochemical Pharmacology. 40:253-263
ISSN: 0006-2952
DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(90)90686-f
Popis: Evidence is presented for targeted gene delivery to HepG2 cells via the endocytotic pathway under the direction of insulin. Serum albumin was treated with the water-soluble carbodiimide N -ethyl- N ′-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride and the resultant positively charged N -acylurea albumin covalently conjugated to insulin by glutaraldehyde cross-linkage. The conjugated protein is shown by nitrocellulose filter binding and gel band shift assays to bind DNA, and by competitive displacement of [ 125 I]insulin to bind to the insulin receptor. When the expression vectors ptkNEO and pAL-8 which incorporate the neo gene were complexed to the conjugate in an in vitro system of transfection, G418 resistant clones developed at frequencies of 2.0–5.5 × 10 −5 . Subsequently, a 923bp PstI fragment within the neo sequence was identified by Southern transfer in genomic DNA from transfected cell populations which had been maintained on a G418 regime for 44 days.
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