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  • Title: Polyethylenimine derived nanoparticles for efficient gene delivery.
    Author: Pathak A, Patnaik S, Gupta KC.
    Journal: Nucleic Acids Symp Ser (Oxf); 2009; (53):57-8. PubMed ID: 19749258.
    Abstract:
    Introduction of therapeutic genes into the cells of an organism in a safe and efficient way has become a challenging task in non-viral mediated gene therapy. Here, branched polyethylenimine (bPEI, 25 kDa) was converted into nanoparticles through electrostatic interactions with anionic polysaccharides (e.g. alginic acid, Al and hyaluronic acid, HA). A small library of PEI-Al and PEI-HA nanoparticles was synthesized by varying the amounts of anionic polysaccharides and evaluated in terms of their size, surface charge, cytotoxicity, transfection efficiency, etc. Both the series of nanoparticles exhibited higher cell viability and transfection efficiency as compared to native PEI and the standard transfection reagents. In vivo targeting efficacy of PEI-HA(4.6%) nanoparticles was examined in tumor induced mice.
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