Non-viral gene therapy based on silencing with small interfering RNA (siRNA) has attracted great interest over recent years. Among various types of cationic complexation agents, amino acid-based surfactants have been recently explored for nucleic acid delivery due to their low toxicity and high biocompatibility. Monoolein (MO), in turn, used as helper lipid liposomal systems its ability form in...

Numerous genes involved in calcification, algal endosymbiosis, and the stress response have been identified corals by large-scale gene expression analysis, but functional analysis of those is lacking. There are few experimental examples manipulation corals, such as knockdown RNA interference (RNAi). The purpose this study to establish an RNAi method for coral juveniles. As a first trial, encodi...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as potential anticancer agents, but their clinical application is limited by the lack of an effective delivery system to tumors. Exosomes are small vesicles that play important roles in intercellular communication. Here, we show that synthetic miR-143 introduced into cells is released enveloped in exosomes and that the secreted exosome-formed miR-143 is transferr...

objective: e1a oncoprotein of adenovirus type 5 is a regulatory factor which controls transcription of other adenovirus genes. this protein promotes both viral genom replication and host cell transformation by altering the function of certain important cellular proteins such as p21 and rb. the aim of the present study was to constantly reduce the expression of e1a gene in hek 293 cell line by r...

The objective of this study was to establish conditions for transfection of a foreign gene into somatic cells using cationic lipid reagents and to evaluate the effects of transfection on in vitro development of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) embryos. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene was used as a foreign gene and a non-transfected somatic cell was utilized as a control karyoplast. Mon...