Evidence of Interlipidic Ion-Pairing in Anion-Induced DNA Release from Cationic Amphiphile−DNA Complexes. Mechanistic Implications in Transfection†

Biochemistry ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (21) ◽  
pp. 7764-7777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santanu Bhattacharya ◽  
Subhrangsu S. Mandal
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 2591-2596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yotam Y. Avital ◽  
Niels Grønbech-Jensen ◽  
Oded Farago

In this work we identify and characterize the entropic driving forces governing the process of transfection by lipid–DNA complexes.


Drug Delivery ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volkmar Weissig ◽  
Carmen Lizano ◽  
Vladimir P. Torchilin
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2006 ◽  
Vol 89 (23) ◽  
pp. 233903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio Caracciolo ◽  
Daniela Pozzi ◽  
Ruggero Caminiti ◽  
Cristina Marchini ◽  
Maura Montani ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
George C. Ruben ◽  
Kenneth A. Marx

Certain double stranded DNA bacteriophage and viruses are thought to have their DNA organized into large torus shaped structures. Morphologically, these poorly understood biological DNA tertiary structures resemble spermidine-condensed DNA complexes formed in vitro in the total absence of other macromolecules normally synthesized by the pathogens for the purpose of their own DNA packaging. Therefore, we have studied the tertiary structure of these self-assembling torus shaped spermidine- DNA complexes in a series of reports. Using freeze-etch, low Pt-C metal (10-15Å) replicas, we have visualized the microscopic DNA organization of both calf Thymus( CT) and linear 0X-174 RFII DNA toruses. In these structures DNA is circumferentially wound, continuously, around the torus into a semi-crystalline, hexagonal packed array of parallel DNA helix sections.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 20204-20223
Author(s):  
Maghsoudi, Hossein ◽  
U Pati

In this study, we expressed and purified the recombinant baculovirus 373 K/E p53 protein in a baculovirus expression system to characterize this mutant and compare it with wild type p53. Gel- filtration chromatography and chemical cross-linking experiments indicated that purified recombinant baculovirus 373 K/E p53 protein assembles into multimeric forms ranging from tetramers to polymers. Gel-mobility shift assays and protein-DNA cross-linking studies demonstrated that the recombinant protein binds, to a consensus DNA target as a dimer but that additional p53 mutant molecules may then associate with the preformed p53-dimer-DNA complexes to form a larger p53_DNA complexes. These observations suggest that the p53 mutant tetramers and polymers that forms the minimal p53 mutant complex in solution dissociated upon DNA binding to form p53 mutant dimmer DNA complexes. The DNA binding activity of this mutant was then investigated using electrophoretic mobility shift assays as well as supershift assay with anti-p53 antibodies. Binding of the anti-p53 antibody PAb421to the oligomerization promoting domain on p53 stimulated the sequential formation of both the p53_dimer DNA and larger p53-DNA complexes


Diabetes ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 1197-1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Saldeen ◽  
D. T. Curiel ◽  
D. L. Eizirik ◽  
A. Andersson ◽  
E. Strandell ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Sterling ◽  
Wenjuan Jiang ◽  
Wesley M. Botello-Smith ◽  
Yun L. Luo

Molecular dynamics simulations of hyaluronic acid and heparin brushes are presented that show important effects of ion-pairing, water dielectric decrease, and co-ion exclusion. Results show equilibria with electroneutrality attained through screening and pairing of brush anionic charges by cations. Most surprising is the reversal of the Donnan potential that would be expected based on electrostatic Boltzmann partitioning alone. Water dielectric decrement within the brush domain is also associated with Born hydration-driven cation exclusion from the brush. We observe that the primary partition energy attracting cations to attain brush electroneutrality is the ion-pairing or salt-bridge energy associated with cation-sulfate and cation-carboxylate solvent-separated and contact ion pairs. Potassium and sodium pairing to glycosaminoglycan carboxylates and sulfates consistently show similar abundance of contact-pairing and solvent-separated pairing. In these crowded macromolecular brushes, ion-pairing, Born-hydration, and electrostatic potential energies all contribute to attain electroneutrality and should therefore contribute in mean-field models to accurately represent brush electrostatics.


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