Abstract
DNA and RNA micro- and nanoparticles are increasingly being used for gene and siRNA drug delivery and a variety of other applications in bionanotechnology. On the nanoscale, these entities represent unique challenges from a physicochemical characterization perspective. Here, nucleic acid conjugates with protamine and gold nanoparticles (GNP) were characterized comparatively in the nanorange of concentration by UV/Vis NanoDrop spectroscopy, fluorimetry, and gel electrophoresis. Given the intense interest in splice-site switching oligomers (SSOs), we utilized a human tumor cell culture system (HeLa pLuc-705), in which SSO-directed splicing repair upregulates luciferase expression, in order to investigate bioactivity of the bionanoconjugates. Process parameters important for bioactivity were investigated, and the bimolecular nanoconjugates were confirmed by shifts in the dynamic laser light scatter (DLLS), UV/Vis spectrum, gel electrophoresis, or sedimentation pattern. The data presented herein may be useful in the future development of pharmaceutical and biotechnology formulations, processes, and analyses concerning protein, DNA, or RNA bionanoconjugates.
Department(s)
Biomedical Sciences
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Physics, Astronomy, and Materials Science
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/954601
Rights Information
© 2012 The authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publication Date
2012
Recommended Citation
DeLong, Robert K., Lisa Cillessen, Chris Reynolds, Adam Wanekaya, Tiffany Severs, Kartik Ghosh, Michael Fisher et al. "Biomolecular triconjugates formed between gold, protamine, and nucleic acid: comparative characterization on the nanoscale." Journal of Nanotechnology (2012).
Journal Title
Journal of Nanotechnology
