Abstract:
:Understanding the cellular uptake and intracellular trafficking of dendrimer-DNA complexes is an important prerequisite for improving the transfection efficiency of non-viral vector-mediated gene delivery. Dendrimers are synthetic polymers used for gene transfer. Although these cationic molecules show promise as versatile DNA carriers, very little is known about the mechanism of gene delivery. This paper investigates how the uptake occurs, using an endothelial cell line as model, and evaluates whether the internalization of dendriplexes takes place randomly on the cell surface or at preferential sites such as membrane rafts. Following extraction of plasma membrane cholesterol, the transfection efficiency of the gene delivered by dendrimers was drastically decreased. Replenishment of membrane cholesterol restored the gene expression. The binding and especially internalization of dendriplexes was strongly reduced by cholesterol depletion before transfection. However, cholesterol removal after transfection did not inhibit expression of the delivered gene. Fluorescent dendriplexes co-localize with the ganglioside GM1 present into membrane rafts in both an immunoprecipitation assay and confocal microscopy studies. These data strongly suggest that membrane cholesterol and raft integrity are physiologically relevant for the cellular uptake of dendrimer-DNA complexes. Hence these findings provide evidence that membrane rafts are important for the internalization of non-viral vectors in gene therapy.
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Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Manunta M,Tan PH,Sagoo P,Kashefi K,George AJdoi
10.1093/nar/gkh595keywords:
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2004-05-17 00:00:00pages
2730-9issue
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0305-1048issn
1362-4962pii
32/9/2730journal_volume
32pub_type
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