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ArticleNew journal of chemistry = Nouveau journal de chimie2014

Cationic liposome-nucleic acid complexes for gene delivery and gene silencing.

Cyrus R Safinya, Kai K Ewert, Ramsey N Majzoub, Cecília Leal

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Article in New journal of chemistry = Nouveau journal de chimie, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 105 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cyrus R SafinyaMaterials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Kai K EwertMaterials Science & Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Ramsey N MajzoubMaterials Science & Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Cecília LealMaterials Science & Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · US

Funding

Structures of Lipid-DNA Nonviral Gene Delivery Systems 4R01GM059288 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI SAFINYA, CYRUS R · 1999 to 2016
$4.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059288
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cationic liposomes (CLs) are studied worldwide as carriers of DNA and short interfering RNA (siRNA) for gene delivery and gene silencing, and related clinical trials are ongoing. Optimization of transfection efficiency and silencing efficiency by cationic liposome carriers requires a comprehensive understanding of the structures of CL-nucleic acid complexes and the nature of their interactions with cell membranes as well as events leading to release of active nucleic acids within the cytoplasm. Synchrotron x-ray scattering has revealed that CL-nucleic acid complexes spontaneously assemble into distinct liquid crystalline phases including the lamellar, inverse hexagonal, hexagonal, and gyroid cubic phases, and fluorescence microscopy has revealed CL-DNA pathways and interactions with cells. The combining of custom synthesis with characterization techniques and gene expression and silencing assays has begun to unveil structure-function relations

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PMID25587216
PMCPMC4288823
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