| Literature DB >> 22104403 |
Bo Xiao1, Ying Wan, Xiaoyu Wang, Qichen Zha, Haoming Liu, Zhiye Qiu, Shengmin Zhang.
Abstract
A series of N-(2-hydroxy)propyl-3-trimethyl ammonium chitosan chloride (HTCC) samples with various degrees of quaternization ranging from 12.4 to 43.7% was synthesized. The structures and properties of HTCC were investigated by FT-IR, (1)H NMR, conductometric titration and XRD analysis. It was found that HTCC had a more amorphous structure than chitosan. HTCC samples showed significantly lower cytotoxicity than polyethyleneimine in HepG2 and HeLa cell lines. The samples spontaneously formed complexes with pGL3 luciferase plasmid. These complexes had desirable particle sizes (160-300 nm) and zeta potentials (10.8-18.7 mV) when the weight ratios of HTCC to plasmid altered in the range of 3:1-20:1. In vitro gene transfection results indicated that HTCC had significantly high transfection efficiency compared with chitosan for delivering pGL3 luciferase plasmid to HeLa cells. The results suggest that HTCC could be a promising non-viral vector for safe and efficient DNA delivery.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 22104403 DOI： 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2011.10.053
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces ISSN： 0927-7765 Impact factor: 5.268