Polymer-coated carbon nanotube hybrids with functional peptides for gene delivery into plant mitochondria

Autor: Simon Sau Yin Law, Geoffrey Liou, Yukiko Nagai, Joan Giménez-Dejoz, Ayaka Tateishi, Kousuke Tsuchiya, Yutaka Kodama, Tsuyohiko Fujigaya, Keiji Numata
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30185-y
Popis: The delivery of genetic material into plants is challenging due to the cell wall barrier. Here, the authors hybridize polymer-coated carbon nanotubes with functional peptides to deliver plasmid DNA cargo into intact plant mitochondria for transient expression and homologous recombination at high efficiency.
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