A new cationic liposome reagent mediating nearly quantitative transfection of animal cells
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A new cationic liposome reagent mediating nearly quantitative transfection of animal cells
Abstract
One of the most efficient systems for the expression of genes in the cytoplasm of animal cells utilizes a recombinant vaccinia virus encoding the bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase. Cells infected with this virus are transfected with plasmid DNAs containing the gene to be expressed under T7 promoter control. The major limitation of this system is the efficiency with which DNA is introduced into the cell. Recently, a cationic liposome-mediated transfection reagent has yielded transfection frequencies of greater than 80%. To determine if commercially available cationic lipids could form liposomes that would yield similar transfection efficiencies, we tested liposomes prepared with five different cationic lipids. When used at appropriate concentrations in liposomes that also contained a neutral lipid, four of the five cationic lipids were effective in the transfection of HeLa cells. However, liposomes formed with the neutral lipid and one of the cationic lipids, dimethyldioctadecylammonium bromide (DDAB), gave transfection frequencies of greater than 95% and had a broad spectrum of effectiveness on a variety of cell lines. Liposomes containing DDAB are an inexpensive, highly efficient and reproducible alternative for the transfection of animal cells and are well suited for use with the vaccinia virus/T7 expression system.
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